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245		4	_aThe End of Empire in the Gulf _b: From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates _c/ Tancred Bradshaw
260			_bI.B. Tauris; Bloomsbury Publishing; _c2020
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505			_aTable of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947 -- Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950s -- Chapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British Influence -- Chapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967 -- Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No Strategy -- Chapter 6: Epilogue -- Conclusion Bibliography
520			_aWith the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal in 1971. This work is a comprehensive history of British policy in the region during that period, situated for the first time in its broad historical and political context. Tancred Bradshaw – an academic historian with extensive experience in the region – sheds light onto the discovery of oil in Abu Dhabi in the 1950s, Foreign Office attempts to instigate a long-term development policy in the region, the slow end of the British Empire, the origins of the UAE and – most importantly – the British legacy in this geopolitically crucial region today. The book relies on 40,000 pages of archival material, much of it previously unused, and will be of interest to Imperial historians, as well as anyone working on the history and politics of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
546			_aEnglish
648			_a20th century _91305
650			_aDS247-248 Arabian Peninsula- Local History and description _91306
650			_aTrucial States _91307
651			_aUAE _95492
700			_aTancred Bradshaw _91308
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