Empires of intelligence
Subtitle: security services and colonial disorder after 1914
By: Martin Thomas.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780520251175
Subjects: Intelligence service -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century; Intelligence service -- Africa, North -- History -- 20th century; Intelligence service -- Great Britain; Intelligence service -- France; Middle East -- Colonization; Africa, North -- Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-418) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: exploring intelligence and empire; title: The development of intelligence services and security policing in North Africa and the Middle East; title: Past precedents and colonial rule; title: Constructing the enemy: intelligence, Islam, and Communism; title: Intelligence and revolt I: British security services and communal unrest in Egypt, Iraq, and Sudan; title: Intelligence and revolt II: French security services and communal unrest in Morocco and Syria; title: Policing the desert frontier: intelligence, environment, and Bedouin communities; title: Intelligence and urban opposition in French territories; title: Disorder in the Palestine Mandate: intelligence and the descent to war in the British Middle East; title: Domestic politics, international threats, and colonial security in French territories, 1936-1939; title: Conclusion: intelligence, security, and the colonial state.