ISBN: 9781849046398

Hardcover: 348 pages
Publisher: Hurst, 2o16
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 3.1 x 22.5 cm

Almost fifty years after Britain and France left the Middle East, the toxic legacies of their rule continue to fester. To make sense of today’s conflicts and crises, we need to grasp how Western imperialism shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between 1917 and 1967. Roger Hardy unearths an imperial history stretching from North Africa to southern Arabia that sowed the seeds of future conflict and poisoned relations between the Middle East and the West.