Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East
Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East by
Priya Satia ISBN: 0199734801
Published by Oxford University Press on November 1st 2009
Genres: Political Science,
General,
Middle East,
Great Britain,
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Pages: 458
Len's Summary: Beyond Lawrence of Arabia: The interaction between culture and imperialism. // Scholarly critique of British imperialism as a paranoid and brutal arm of military policy with its roots in Edwardian England; questions the liberal underpinnings of imperial ideology. A cultural history of the interwar British imperial state.