1st Edition
Moguls and Mandarins Oil, Imperialism and the Middle East in British Foreign Policy 1900-1940
By Marian Kent
Copyright 1994
192 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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A study of Britain's imperial policy in the Middle East over oil, finance and defence. This book brings together different accounts of British policy in the early 20th century, particularly in the Ottoman Empire, to reflect a consistent pattern of preoccupation, policy-making and diplomacy.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Moguls and Mandarins; Chapter 2 The Purchase of the British Government’s Shares in the British Petroleum Company 1912–1914; Chapter 3 Agent of Empire? The National Bank of Turkey and British Foreign Policy; Chapter 4 British Policy, International Diplomacy and the Turkish Revolution; Chapter 5 Guarding the Bandwagon; Chapter 6 Developments in British Government Oil Policy in the interwar Period;
Biography
Marian Kent