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Total Pages : 948 pages
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Download or read book The British Commonwealth, 1956 written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1958 pages
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Download or read book The British Commonwealth 1956. With a Foreword by the Earl of Swinton written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Slight
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674915828
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The British Empire and the Hajj written by John Slight and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire at its height governed more than half the world’s Muslims. It was a political imperative for the Empire to present itself to Muslims as a friend and protector, to take seriously what one scholar called its role as “the greatest Mohamedan power in the world.” Few tasks were more important than engagement with the pilgrimage to Mecca. Every year, tens of thousands of Muslims set out for Mecca from imperial territories throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the South China Sea. Men and women representing all economic classes and scores of ethnic and linguistic groups made extraordinary journeys across waterways, deserts, and savannahs, creating huge challenges for officials charged with the administration of these pilgrims. They had to balance the religious obligation to travel against the desire to control the pilgrims’ movements, and they became responsible for the care of those who ran out of money. John Slight traces the Empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. The story draws on a varied cast of characters—Richard Burton, Thomas Cook, the Begums of Bhopal, Lawrence of Arabia, and frontline imperial officials, many of them Muslim—and gives voice throughout to the pilgrims themselves. The British Empire and the Hajj is a crucial resource for understanding how this episode in imperial history was experienced by rulers and ruled alike.
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Total Pages : 3 pages
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Download or read book British Commonwealth written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl of Swinton
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Download or read book The British Commonwealth... with a Foreword by the Earl of Swinton,... I, 1956 written by Earl of Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Charlwood
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526757095
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Suez Crisis 1956 written by David Charlwood and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced short history that moves between London, Washington, and Cairo to reveal the crisis that brought down a prime minister. Includes photos, a timeline, and a special afterword examining the parallels with the 2003 Iraq war In 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, ending nearly a century of British and French control over the crucial waterway. Ignoring U.S. diplomatic efforts and fears of a looming Cold War conflict, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden misled Parliament and the press to take Britain to war alongside France and Israel. In response to a secretly planned Israeli attack in the Sinai, France and Britain intervened as “peacemakers.” The invasion of Egypt was supposed to restore British and French control of the canal and reaffirm Britain’s flagging prestige. Instead, the operation spectacularly backfired, setting Britain and the United States on a collision course that would change the balance of power in the Middle East. The combined air, sea, and land battle witnessed the first helicopter-borne deployment of assault troops and the last large-scale parachute drop into a conflict zone by British forces. French and British soldiers fought together against the Soviet-equipped Egyptian military in a short campaign that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers—along with innocent civilians. This book, by a prominent historian specializing in the Middle East, tells the story.
Author : British Commonwealth League
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Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Report on the Sadd Brown Library written by British Commonwealth League and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Varble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472810147
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Suez Crisis 1956 written by Derek Varble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, causing immediate concern to Britain and France. They already opposed Nasser and were worried at the threat to maritime traffic in the Canal. This book traces the course of subsequent events. Together with Israel, Britain and France hatched a plot to occupy the Canal Zone and overthrow Nasser. Israel attacked Sinai, and Britain and France launched offensives throughout Egypt, but strategic failures overshasdowed tactical success. Finally, Britain, France and Israel bowed to international pressure and withdrew, leaving the Suez Canal, and Egypt, firmly in the hands of President Nasser.
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book The British Commonwealth Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Roger Louis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198202417
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Suez 1956 written by William Roger Louis and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1991 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis, based on newly available evidence, of the Suez crisis of 1956, its origins, and its consequences. The contributors are all leading authorities, and some, like Mordechai Bar-On, Robert Bowie and Adam Watson, were active participants in the events of the time.
Author : Barry Turner
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444764853
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Suez 1956: The Inside Story of the First Oil War written by Barry Turner and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1956, Britain, France and Israel launched an attack on Egypt. For each of the contenders there was much more at stake than the future of the Canal. None of the combatants in the Suez campaign emerged in glory which may be why, in recent years, it has been largely relegated to academic studies. But the events surrounding the invasion, while combining the high drama with elements of political farce that make for a compelling story, had a greater impact on world affairs than many more famous conflicts.
Author : Michael Doran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451697759
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Ike's Gamble written by Michael Doran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bold reinterpretation of history, Ike's Gamble shows how the 1956 Suez Crisis taught President Eisenhower that Israel, not Egypt, would have to be America's ally in the region. In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession of the Suez Canal, bringing the Middle East to the brink of war. Distinguished Middle East expert Michael Doran shows how Nasser played the United States, invoking America's opposition to European colonialism to his own benefit. At the same time Nasser made weapons deals with the USSR and destabilized other Arab countries that the United States had been courting. In time, Eisenhower would realize that Nasser had duped him and that the Arab countries were too fractious to anchor America's interests in the Middle East. Affording deep insight into Eisenhower and his foreign policy, this fascinating and provocative history provides a rich new understanding of the tangled path by which the United States became the power broker in the Middle East. -- Back cover.
Author : Great Britain. Central Statistical Office
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Download or read book Papers Contributed by Countries Represented at the Fourth Conference of British Commonwealth Statisticians, Held in London, from 17th. to 28th. September, 1956 written by Great Britain. Central Statistical Office and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192552430
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Arguing about Empire written by Martin Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study approach, treating key imperial debates as historical episodes to be investigated in depth. The episodes in question have been selected both for their chronological range, their variety, and, above all, their vitriol. Some were straightforward disputes; others involved cooperation in tense circumstances. These include the Tunisian and Egyptian crises of 1881-2, which saw France and Britain establish new North African protectorates, ostensibly in co-operation, but actually in competition; the Fashoda Crisis of 1898, when Britain and France came to the brink of war in the aftermath of the British re-conquest of Sudan; the Moroccan crises of 1905 and 1911, early tests of the Entente Cordiale, when Britain lent support to France in the face of German threats; the 1922 Chanak crisis, when that imperial Entente broke down in the face of a threatened attack on Franco-British forces by Kemalist Turkey; World War Two, which can be seen in part as an undeclared colonial war between the former allies, complicated by the division of the French Empire between De Gaulle's Free French forces and those who remained loyal to the Vichy Regime; and finally the 1956 Suez intervention, when, far from defusing another imperial crisis, Britain colluded with France and Israel to invade Egypt — the culmination of the imperial interference that began some eighty years earlier.
Download or read book London, 1956. Fourth Conference of Commonwealth Statisticians, 1956. Papers Contributed by Countries Represented at the Fourth Conference of British Commonwealth Statisticians, Held in London, from 17th to 28th September, 1956 written by and published by . This book was released on 1958* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917423
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire written by Peter Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.
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Total Pages : 27 pages
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Download or read book London, 1956. Report of the Fourth Conference of British Commonwealth Statisticians held in London, 17th to 28th September 1956 written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
