Arabian Frontier of the British Raj - Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf

Zusatztext a brilliant book by James Onley, which I consider the best piece of Gulf scholarship to appear in many, many years. Klappentext The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites. Zusammenfassung The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: British India's Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa 3: British India's Native Agency System in Asia 4: The Operation of British India's Native Agency in Bahrain 5: British India's Native Agents in Bahrain 6: The Decline of British India's Native Agency System in Bahrain and the Gulf 7: Conclusion: The Arabian Frontier of the Indian Empire

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• Authors: James Onley, James (Director of Gulf Studies & Lecturer Onley, James (Director of Gulf Studies & Lecturer in Middle Eastern History Onley, Onley James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9780199228102
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922810-2
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India