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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964722203321

Autore

Nash Geoffrey

Titolo

From empire to orient : travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926 / / Geoffrey P. Nash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9780755608027

075560802X

9781786720719

178672071X

9781786730718

1786730715

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Disciplina

327.4'1'056'09034

Soggetti

Anti-imperialist movements - Great Britain - History

British & Irish history

Middle East Foreign public opinion, British History 19th century

Middle East Foreign public opinion, British History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-245) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"From Empire to Orient offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both anti-Imperialist and pro-Islamic. Geoffrey Nash places David Urquhart's passionate belief in the ideal of municipal government in Turkey, W.S. Blunt's enthusiasm for the Egyptian reformers of the Azhar and Marmaduke Pickthall's advocacy of the cause of the Young Turks into their political and historical context and into the context of their writings."--Bloomsbury publishing.