The Poisoned Well - Roger Hardy

The Poisoned Well

Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East

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Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-005633-9 (ISBN)
26,75 inkl. MwSt
In The Poisoned Well, veteran BBC journalist Roger Hardy presents a realist's history of the Middle East, by weaving together stories of political strife and vivid firsthand accounts, to illustrate that the current conflicts and crises of the Middle East are borne out of the troubled legacy of Western imperialism in the region.
The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To better understand them, we need to acknowledge how Western imperialism negatively shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between World War I and the happenings of the Cold War. That is the challenging argument of The Poisoned Well, which provides a vivid account of the struggle against European colonial rule in ten states stretching from North Africa to south Arabia.

Drawing on a rich cast of eye-witnesses - ranging from nationalists and colonial administrators to soldiers, spies, and courtesans - The Poisoned Well brings to life the story of the making of the Middle East, highlighting the great dramas of decolonization such as the end of the Palestine mandate, the Suez crisis, the Algerian war of independence, and the retreat from Aden. It argues that imperialism sowed the seeds of future conflict - and poisoned relations between the Middle East and the West.

Bolstered by firsthand accounts and interviews, readers will find a wise and humanistic account of the struggle for independence in the Middle East. Written by a former BBC journalist, it is a far-ranging, landmark work that will serve as the definitive history of Western imperialism in the Middle East for years to come.

Roger Hardy worked for more than twenty years as a Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service. He is the author of The Muslim Revolt: A Journey through Political Islam (Hurst and Colombia University Press, 2010) and is a Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies in Oxford.

Introduction: Remembering Colonialism

1. Out of the Ashes
2. Sword of Arabia
3. The Struggle for the Levant
4. Lovers of Zion
5. Abdullah's Little Kingdom
6. Oil and Empire
7. The Pigeons of Denshawai
8. Revolution on the Tigris
9. The Battle of Algiers
10. Arabian Endgame

Epilogue: The Poisoned Well

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Dramatis Personae

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 231 x 155 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-005633-9 / 0190056339
ISBN-13 978-0-19-005633-9 / 9780190056339
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