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• catalog abstract "During the 1991 Gulf War, pundits and experts scrambled unsuccessfully to explain Iraq's "claim" to Kuwait. In a lucid and measured account of a complex historical and geographic drama that culminated in Operation Desert Storm, David Finnie elucidates the long Kuwaiti-Iraqi border dispute and lays Saddam Hussein's dubious claim to rest. He also raises larger questions about European colonialism and about the creation of new nation-states in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Finnie vividly portrays how arbitrary the drawing of frontiers can be, and how they come to serve internal, regional, and international rivalries and ambitions. This history begins in the eighteenth century, when Kuwait was first settled by nomads from the Arabian desert. Finnie describes the country's growing prosperity under a merchant oligarchy, then shows how the Kuwaitis, seeking British protection from the sprawling Ottoman Empire, came to serve England's imperial strategy. He details the ways in which Britain parlayed its mandatory control of Iraq and its protectorate over Kuwait to curb the larger nation's ambitions and to ensure Kuwait's independence under British auspices. A fresh look at British diplomatic documents reveals how Whitehall covered its tracks, heading off the Iraqis, obfuscating League of Nations proceedings, and confounding scholars and researchers down to the present day. Pursuing his story through Britain's withdrawal from the Persian Gulf and Iraq's 1963 recognition of Kuwait's boundaries, Finnie examines the United Nations' postwar measures to secure the frontier in the face of Iraq's continuing pressure for better access to Gulf waters.".
• catalog contributor b3699778.
• catalog coverage "Iraq Boundaries Kuwait.".
• catalog coverage "Kuwait Boundaries Iraq.".
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "1. Kuwait: The Beginnings -- 2. Britain, Kuwait, and the Turks, 1899-1914 -- 3. Britain Takes Charge in Iraq and Kuwait -- 4. First Lines in the Sand, 1923 -- 5. Invisible Lines at Geneva, 1932 -- 6. Britain and Kuwait between the Wars -- 7. Iraq on Its Own -- 8. The Undemarcated Boundary, 1938-1958 -- 9. Dress Rehearsal for Desert Storm, 1961 -- 10. Reconciliation, Encroachment, and the First Gulf War, 1963-1988 -- 11. Saddam Hussein and the UN: Clear Lines in the Sand?".
• catalog description "During the 1991 Gulf War, pundits and experts scrambled unsuccessfully to explain Iraq's "claim" to Kuwait. In a lucid and measured account of a complex historical and geographic drama that culminated in Operation Desert Storm, David Finnie elucidates the long Kuwaiti-Iraqi border dispute and lays Saddam Hussein's dubious claim to rest. He also raises larger questions about European colonialism and about the creation of new nation-states in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Finnie vividly portrays how arbitrary the drawing of frontiers can be, and how they come to serve internal, regional, and international rivalries and ambitions. This history begins in the eighteenth century, when Kuwait was first settled by nomads from the Arabian desert. Finnie describes the country's growing prosperity under a merchant oligarchy, then shows how the Kuwaitis, seeking British protection from the sprawling Ottoman Empire, came to serve England's imperial strategy. He details the ways in which Britain parlayed its mandatory control of Iraq and its protectorate over Kuwait to curb the larger nation's ambitions and to ensure Kuwait's independence under British auspices. A fresh look at British diplomatic documents reveals how Whitehall covered its tracks, heading off the Iraqis, obfuscating League of Nations proceedings, and confounding scholars and researchers down to the present day. Pursuing his story through Britain's withdrawal from the Persian Gulf and Iraq's 1963 recognition of Kuwait's boundaries, Finnie examines the United Nations' postwar measures to secure the frontier in the face of Iraq's continuing pressure for better access to Gulf waters.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-214) and index.".
• catalog extent "viii, 221 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Shifting lines in the sand.".
• catalog identifier "0674806395".
• catalog isFormatOf "Shifting lines in the sand.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "Shifting lines in the sand.".
• catalog spatial "Iraq Boundaries Kuwait.".
• catalog spatial "Kuwait Boundaries Iraq.".
• catalog subject "341.4/2/026656705367 20".
• catalog subject "DS70.96.K9 F56 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Kuwait: The Beginnings -- 2. Britain, Kuwait, and the Turks, 1899-1914 -- 3. Britain Takes Charge in Iraq and Kuwait -- 4. First Lines in the Sand, 1923 -- 5. Invisible Lines at Geneva, 1932 -- 6. Britain and Kuwait between the Wars -- 7. Iraq on Its Own -- 8. The Undemarcated Boundary, 1938-1958 -- 9. Dress Rehearsal for Desert Storm, 1961 -- 10. Reconciliation, Encroachment, and the First Gulf War, 1963-1988 -- 11. Saddam Hussein and the UN: Clear Lines in the Sand?".
• catalog title "Shifting lines in the sand : Kuwait's elusive frontier with Iraq / David H. Finnie.".
• catalog type "text".