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  • - French Art Education in Morocco 1912-1956
    av Hamid Irbouh
    534 - 1 975,-

    Throws light on how nothing in the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956) escaped the imprints of metropolitan ideology and how the French dominated Moroccan society by looking at how the arts were transformed in the colonial period. This book investigates how French colonial administrators employed French women to inculcate colonial ideology.

  • - The British District Officer in Africa
    av Anthony Kirk-Greene
    548 - 1 975,-

    Anthony Kirk-Greene, who was himself a distinguished member of the Nigeria Service, draws upon personal memoirs, diaries, private and official papers, and his own experience to paint a vivid picture of the Service and a never to be repeated episode in British history.

  • - A Life of Sir Eldon Gorst, 1861-1911
    av Archie Hunter
    864,-

    When Sir Eldon Gorst succeeded Lord Cromer as Agent and Consul-General in Cairo in 1907, Britain effectively ruled Egypt and Sudan. The period Gorst spent in Egypt was critical in shaping Africa's history. This book offers an assessment of his contribution and argues that his was an honourable attempt to share government with the Egyptian people.

  • - Pioneering British Medical Services in Late Ottoman Palestine
    av Yaron Perry
    1 828,-

    Provides an assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century. This work presents the history of medical service men who fought to improve the health of the inhabitants of the Holy Land under the difficult conditions of climate and disease.

  • - Scottish Missions to palestine, 1839-1917
    av Michael Marten
    1 975,-

    The first comprehensive study of Scottish religious imperialism in the Middle East highly topical in the light of parallels with American religious imperialism in the region has interdisciplinary importance and appeal Attempting to Bring the Gospel Home portrays the Scottish missions to Palestine carried out by Presbyterian churches. These missions had as their stated aim the conversion of Jews to Protestantism, but also attempted to ''convert'' other Christians and Muslims. Marten discusses the missions to Damascus, Aleppo, Tiberias, Safad, Hebron and Jaffa, and locates the missionaries in their religious, social, national and imperial contexts. He describes the three main methods of the missionaries'' work - confrontation, education and medicine - as well as the ways in which these were communicated to the supporting constituency in Scotland. Michael Marten was formerly a graduate student in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, and now teaches at SOAS.

  • - Administrative Officers from the 19th Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997
    av Steve (Oxford University Tsang
    1 828,-

    Hong Kong is at the heart of modern China's position as a regional - and potential world - superpower. This history of the region argues that its prosperity is a direct by-product of the British administrators who ran the place as a colony before the handover in 1997.

  • - Colonialism, Nationalism and the Classical Heritage
    av Angela S. Michael
    1 136,-

    This is an original and stimulating study of cultural nationalism for those involved in research into nationalism, post-colonial theory, decolonisation and the modern history of Cyprus.

  • - Life and Death in World War I Palestine
    av Eran Dolev
    1 975,-

    Examines a feature of World War I as it was fought in the Middle East - the contribution made by the practice of military medicine to the success of Egyptian Expeditionary Force. This work describes the general developments in military-medical organisation and surgery on the battlefield during these campaigns.

  • av Sue Onslow
    1 327,-

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