Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East

by Warren Dockter

Book Overview

Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world.Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book unravels Churchill's nuanced understanding of the edges of the British Empire. Warren Dockter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780768184
• ISBN13: 9781780768182
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.6"