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New. Founded in 1916, the Arab Bureau was a small collection of British intelligence officers headquartered in Cairo and charged with the task of coordinating imperial intelligence activities in the Middle East. It is most often remembered for its flamboyant cast of characters, particularly T. E. Lawrence, and its role in instigating the Arab Revolt to break Turkish control over the Arab-speaking Middle East. From the beginning, however, the Bureau was vilified within imperial circles as a group of amateurish and incompetent pro-Arab dilettantes. And ever since, it has borne much of the blame for Britain's terrible mishandling of Middle Eastern policy during and shortly after World War I. In this first full-length study of the Arab Bureau, Bruce Westrate challenges these stereotypes and reassesses the role that the Bureau actually played within imperial policy-making circles that stretched from London to Cairo to Delhi. Through close analysis of personal papers and Foreign Office records,…
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- Title The Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920
- Author Bruce Westrate
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penn State University Press
- Date 1992-04-15
- ISBN 9780271023243 / 0271023244
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.59 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.50 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Dewey Decimal Code 956
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