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The deluge : a personal view of the end of empire in the Middle East /
Sir Kennedy Trevaskis was the last High Commissioner of South Arabia - a role he held from 1963-1965, which provided the pinnacle of his career and yet also his ultimate failure. Trevaskis's imperial credentials were impeccable. He was a District Officer in Northern Rhodesia, followed by servic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Map of Eritrea Administrative Divisions; Map of the Federation of South Arabia; Introduction; Foreword; I Prelude; 1 A Little 'Sahib' at the Turn of the Tide in India; 2 Life with an Imperialist Father; II Central Africa (Zambia): 1938-39: Don Quixote in the Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Jungle; III Empires at War in East Africa: 1939-41; 1 Defeat; 2 Imprisonment and Victory; IV The Occupation and Disposal of Italian Eritrea; 1 The Spoils of War; 2 Taking Over Without Tears; 3 The Abyssinian People and Church Militant; 4 Encounter with a Prophet
- 5 Moslems in Trouble6 Peace, Progress and a Little Prosperity; 7 A Whiff of Ethiopian Imperialism in the Air; 8 Ethiopian Mischief; 9 The Christian Abyssinians and Ethiopia's Claims to Eritrea; 10 As the War Ends, the Allies Turn Their Attention to the Italian Colonies; 11 The Moslem Awakening; 12 The Emancipation of the Moslem Tribal Serfs and the Birth of an Anti-Ethiopian Moslem League; 13 A Divided Eritrea Awaits a Decision; 14 The Four Powers Agree to Disagree; 15 Struggle and Strife; 16 The United Nations Brings the Curtain Down on Eritrea; 17 Eritrean Postscript
- V Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) RevisitedVI The End of Aden and the Raj; 1 A Chip off the Old British Indian Block; 2 Marking Time; 3 Forward with the Forward Policy; 4 Drafting a Blueprint for the Future; 5 A Hideous Self-inflicted Wound; 6 A Surrogate War with the Yemen; 7 A Coup that Failed; 8 The Lahej Conspiracy; 9 The Arab Emirates of the South Take the Floor; 10 Our Enemies Confounded; 11 Aden and the Federation Unite in the Nick of Time; 12 Civil War in the Yemen Tempers the Nasserite Threats; 13 Finis; 14 South Arabian Postscript; Index; Image Section