An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today.
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Map Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART I The Political Economy of Empire before 1914 Expansion of the Campaigns, 1915-16 Intensification of Wartime Control, 1917-18 PART II Deepening the Colonial State Mobilisation of Labour for Logistical Units Extraction of Agricultural Resources PART III Post-war Backlash and Imperial Readjustment, 1919-22 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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KRISTIAN COATES ULRICHSEN is Deputy Director of the Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a Ph D from the University of Cambridge, and his research focuses on the history and politics of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.
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