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Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914

Briton Cooper Busch

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Description:For much of the nineteenth century, the Persian Gulf was a British preserve. In the last decade of that century and first years of the twentieth, however, the British position in the Gulf was severely tested, just at a time when British statesmen were finding "splendid isolation" untenable. Four separate but interacting attempts to wrest predominance from British hands form the focus of this work: an effort by the French government to gain a strategic foothold in Muscat through the establishment of a coal depot, the grant of French flags and documents to local sailing vessels, and the protection accorded by that power to the arms traffic in the Gulf; Turkish attempts to recreate an effective sphere of influence in the Bahrain-Qatar area; German efforts to utilize Kuwait as the terminus of the Baghdad Railway; and a less specific but equally important Russian desire to establish a position of her own in the Gulf.Each challenge produced a British reaction, and these reactions, taken overall, resulted in a "forward policy" in the Gulf -- but a forward policy viewed by its supporters as a defense of an established sphere of influence. In each of the Gulf areas concerned, Great Britain maintained her apparently unassailable position. This work explores both the challenges, as seen through British eyes, and the policy evolved to withstand them, It is a study of British policy-formation in a non-European area, an area that in the period after 1890 became intimately linked with European diplomacy.Particular attention is given to the often divergent interests of the departments within the British-Indian governmental structure sharing in Gulf policy. Throughout the narrative of this book runs a theme of the clash of the two policy-making centers: the British government in England an the Indian government, with the controversy centering on the role of each in financial and administrative responsibility for the Gulf. What to India was a key area to its own defense, was to England just one area among many that demanded attention. Yet even in England, Gulf issues had a notable tendency to bring to the fore high-level controversies among Foreign Office, India Office, Admiralty, and Treasury. The work is thus a study in three fields: in the international rivalries of the pre-World War I era, in the history of British imperial policy formation, and, finally, in the diplomatic and political history of the Middle East.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914. To get started finding Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: University of California Press

Release: 1967

ISBN: 0520002008

Description: For much of the nineteenth century, the Persian Gulf was a British preserve. In the last decade of that century and first years of the twentieth, however, the British position in the Gulf was severely tested, just at a time when British statesmen were finding "splendid isolation" untenable. Four separate but interacting attempts to wrest predominance from British hands form the focus of this work: an effort by the French government to gain a strategic foothold in Muscat through the establishment of a coal depot, the grant of French flags and documents to local sailing vessels, and the protection accorded by that power to the arms traffic in the Gulf; Turkish attempts to recreate an effective sphere of influence in the Bahrain-Qatar area; German efforts to utilize Kuwait as the terminus of the Baghdad Railway; and a less specific but equally important Russian desire to establish a position of her own in the Gulf.Each challenge produced a British reaction, and these reactions, taken overall, resulted in a "forward policy" in the Gulf -- but a forward policy viewed by its supporters as a defense of an established sphere of influence. In each of the Gulf areas concerned, Great Britain maintained her apparently unassailable position. This work explores both the challenges, as seen through British eyes, and the policy evolved to withstand them, It is a study of British policy-formation in a non-European area, an area that in the period after 1890 became intimately linked with European diplomacy.Particular attention is given to the often divergent interests of the departments within the British-Indian governmental structure sharing in Gulf policy. Throughout the narrative of this book runs a theme of the clash of the two policy-making centers: the British government in England an the Indian government, with the controversy centering on the role of each in financial and administrative responsibility for the Gulf. What to India was a key area to its own defense, was to England just one area among many that demanded attention. Yet even in England, Gulf issues had a notable tendency to bring to the fore high-level controversies among Foreign Office, India Office, Admiralty, and Treasury. The work is thus a study in three fields: in the international rivalries of the pre-World War I era, in the history of British imperial policy formation, and, finally, in the diplomatic and political history of the Middle East.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914. To get started finding Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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