[PDF.78vh] 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

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 | #908810 in Books |  Priya Satia |  2009-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.00 x1.00 x9.10l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 472 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Faith in intuition still rules|By Richard Arant|Spies in Arabia is an educational read, even for those with poor educations like myself who didn't know the meaning of this book's most often-used word, "epistemology." After finishing the book the first time, in defeat and still unable to divine the meaning of this obviously key word from context, I stooped to the dictionary. ||"A significant addition to the historiography of the First World War beyond Europe...[and] a timely reminder that these 'sideshows' of the First World War were in fact very important in determining the political structures of the modern Middle East."--Nadia A

At the dawn of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began to venture in increasing numbers to the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire, a region of crucial geopolitical importance spanning present-day Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. They were drawn by the twin objectives of securing the land route to India and finding adventure and spiritualism in a mysterious and ancient land. But these competing desires created a dilemma: how were they to discreetly an...

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