Proconsul to the Middle East —— Sir Percy Cox and the End of Empire

Name: Proconsul to the Middle East
Rating: 5
ISBN: 9781848851344

----- 中东殖民地总督：珀西·考克斯爵士与帝国终结

ISBN: 9781848851344 出版年：2010 页码：252 John Townsend Bloomsbury Publishing

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Britain's Moment in the Middle East: was it an imperial triumph or a decisive staging post in the end-of-empire story? Sir Percy Cox (1864-1937) was a vital figure in the history of the British Empire in the Middle East, part of the pantheon with such legends as T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell. As High Commissioner in Iraq from 1920 to 1923 he presided over the birth of modern Iraq - the climax of his career - but left an infant state fraught with political, ethnic and religious problems which have bedeviled Iraq and the Middle East to the present day. John Townsend paints a convincing picture of Britain's global empire and brings Cox to life as an archetypal patrician proconsul. This is the first major biography of Cox, based on extensive research in original sources and long experience in the region. It strikingly illustrates the troubled contemporary history of Iraq and the modern Middle East and will become the standard work on Cox.

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Pixie

I liked this book and recommend it. I have a copy of Graves' biography of Cox which concentrates on the man. This book is more a history of the period round the Great War and immediately after but emphasises Cox's role and importance to British decision taking. The writing is clear, concise and informative. I felt at the end of a good read that my understanding of events in the Middle East had increased not only in the time the book addresses but the results that have occurred since. The thing that surprised me was that not all the British were blind imperialists but that some were aware of the impact of putting different Muslim sects and tribes under the same ruler(s). Imperial politicians in far away London and Paris were never concerned with the locals only in how they could digest the bits of the Ottoman Empire they wanted.[[ASIN:0956639100 Queen of Clubs .

Pixie

I liked this book and recommend it. I have a copy of Graves' biography of Cox which concentrates on the man. This book is more a history of the period round the Great War and immediately after but emphasises Cox's role and importance to British decision taking.The writing is clear, concise and informative. I felt at the end of a good read that my understanding of events in the Middle East had increased not only in the time the book addresses but the results that have occurred since.The thing that surprised me was that not all the British were blind imperialists but that some were aware of the impact of putting different Muslim sects and tribes under the same ruler(s). Imperial politicians in far away London and Paris were never concerned with the locals only in how they could digest the bits of the Ottoman Empire they wanted.[[ASIN:0956639100 Queen of Clubs.

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