The End of Empire in the Middle East
Subtitle: Britain's Relinquishment of Power in her Last Three Arab Dependencies (Cambridge Middle East Library)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521466363
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; 20th Century Diplomatic History; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East; Middle East - General; Great britain; History / Middle East
First sentence: As World War II ended, the enormity of its economic consequences for Britain were neither instantly nor widely recognized, there or elsewhere, though recognition of her exhaustion in the economic field did in the nature of things come much quicker than recognition of the war's political consequences.