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- catalog abstract "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, including Arab Bureau documents, Westrate concludes that Bureau members were in fact sober-minded strategists who were skillfully working to secure the region for imperial interests.".
- catalog contributor b3560996.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Foreign relations Middle East.".
- catalog coverage "Middle East Foreign relations Great Britain.".
- catalog coverage "Middle East History 1914-1923.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "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, including Arab Bureau documents, Westrate concludes that Bureau members were in fact sober-minded strategists who were skillfully working to secure the region for imperial interests.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-231) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 240 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Arab Bureau.".
- catalog identifier "027100794X (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Arab Bureau.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Arab Bureau.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Foreign relations Middle East.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East Foreign relations Great Britain.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East History 1914-1923.".
- catalog subject "327.41056/09/041 20".
- catalog subject "Arab Bureau (Cairo, Egypt)".
- catalog subject "DS63.2.G7 W47 1992".
- catalog title "The Arab Bureau : British policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920 / Bruce Westrate.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".