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The Independent Arab / Hubert Young.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Kiraz Historic Travels ArchivePublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 3Content type:
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  • 9781593336721
  • 9781463213091
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER I. JOURNEYS (MIDDLE EAST, 1913) -- MESOPOTAMIA -- CHAPTER II. ORTHODOXY (BASRAH, 1915) -- CHAPTER III. EARTHWORK (SHAIBA, 1916) -- CHAPTER IV. REGATTAS (NASIRIYAH, 1916) -- CHAPTER V. RESOURCES (BAGHDAD, 1917) -- ARABIA PETRÆA -- CHAPTER VI. HETERODOXY (AKABA, 1918) -- CHAPTER VII. GUNS (WAHEIDA, 1918) -- CHAPTER VIII. CAMELS (AZRAQ, 1918) -- CHAPTER IX. DEMOLITIONS (DERAA, 1918) -- CHAPTER X. CLIMAX (DAMASCUS, 1918) -- DOWNING STREET -- CHAPTER XI. COMMITMENTS (FOREIGN OFFICE, 1919) -- CHAPTER XII. DELAYS (CONFERENCES, 1920) -- EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER XIII. CONSTRUCTION (MIDDLE EAST, 1921) -- INDEX -- MAPS
Summary: Part travelogue and part memoir, this account of Major Sir Hubert Young’s time spent in the Middle East in diplomatic and military roles provides a rare insider’s look at political developments in that part of the world. Sympathetic with the rich Arabic heritage of Mesopotamia, Arabia, and what is now Jordan and Syria, Young writes a lucid narrative spanning the time from his first involvement up to the Iraqi Mandate.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER I. JOURNEYS (MIDDLE EAST, 1913) -- MESOPOTAMIA -- CHAPTER II. ORTHODOXY (BASRAH, 1915) -- CHAPTER III. EARTHWORK (SHAIBA, 1916) -- CHAPTER IV. REGATTAS (NASIRIYAH, 1916) -- CHAPTER V. RESOURCES (BAGHDAD, 1917) -- ARABIA PETRÆA -- CHAPTER VI. HETERODOXY (AKABA, 1918) -- CHAPTER VII. GUNS (WAHEIDA, 1918) -- CHAPTER VIII. CAMELS (AZRAQ, 1918) -- CHAPTER IX. DEMOLITIONS (DERAA, 1918) -- CHAPTER X. CLIMAX (DAMASCUS, 1918) -- DOWNING STREET -- CHAPTER XI. COMMITMENTS (FOREIGN OFFICE, 1919) -- CHAPTER XII. DELAYS (CONFERENCES, 1920) -- EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER XIII. CONSTRUCTION (MIDDLE EAST, 1921) -- INDEX -- MAPS

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Part travelogue and part memoir, this account of Major Sir Hubert Young’s time spent in the Middle East in diplomatic and military roles provides a rare insider’s look at political developments in that part of the world. Sympathetic with the rich Arabic heritage of Mesopotamia, Arabia, and what is now Jordan and Syria, Young writes a lucid narrative spanning the time from his first involvement up to the Iraqi Mandate.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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