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  title info:
    title: Inventing the Middle East
    sub title: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism
  title info:
    title: Genèses du Moyen-Orient. English
  name:
    name part: Crouzet, Guillemette
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after World War I. Guillemette Crouzet offers a new account in Inventing the Middle East. The book traces the idea of the Middle East to a century-long British imperial zenith in the Indian subcontinent and its violent overspill into the Persian Gulf and its hinterlands. Encroachment into the Gulf region began under the expansionist East India Company. It was catalyzed by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and heightened by gunboat attacks conducted in the name of pacifying Arab "pirates." Throughout the 1800s the British secured this crucial geopolitical arena, transforming it into both a crossroads of land and sea and a borderland guarding British India's western flank. Establishing this informal imperial system involved a triangle of actors in London, the subcontinent and the Gulf region itself. By the nineteenth century's end, amid renewed waves of inter-imperial competition, this nexus of British interests and narratives in the Gulf region would occasion the appearance of a new name, the Middle East. Charting the spatial, political and cultural emergence of the Middle East, Inventing the Middle East reveals the deep roots of the twentieth century's geographic upheavals.
  table of contents: Edge of Empire: Britain, the East India Company, and Early Interventions in the Gulf -- "Pax Britannica" in the Gulf? Strategies for Indirect Rule, 1810-1853 -- Maps and Surveys: The Geographical Invention of the British Gulf -- The Globalization of the Gulf Economy -- Passages to India: Mesopotamia and the Gulf in British Imperial Imaginaries -- The Gulf in the Age of New Imperialism.
  note: Guillemette Crouzet.
  note: Revised version of the French book: Genèses du Moyen-Orient : le golfe Persique à l'âge des impérialismes (vers 1800-vers 1914).
  note: Translated from the French.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ap-----
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    geographic: Persian Gulf Region
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: British
    geographic: Persian Gulf Region
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Persian Gulf Region
    topic: Strategic aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Persian Gulf Region
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Persian Gulf Region
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Asia
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: 953.6
  identifier: 9780228014058
  identifier: 0228014050
  identifier: 9780228014065
  identifier: 0228014069
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 220410
    record change date: 20250729190003.9
    record identifier: in00004651937
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng