Rasor Bibliography
View entry no. 148
Full entry text:
Adelson, Roger. London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power, and War, 1902-1922. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994, 1995, xii, 244 pp. 72 illustrations; term first used by Mahan; emphasis on decision-making process, especially those of Balfour, Lloyd George, Churchill, Kitchener & Landsdown; issues: Baghdad Railway, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Dardanelles, secret diplomacy, Balfour Declaration, Lawrence of Arabia & "Empire on the Cheap."
Categories:
20th C. (1900-1999); economics; Gallipoli; Mahan, Alfred Thayer; Middle East; oil ; personality;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Middle East, oil , economics, economic policy, Mahan, Alfred Thayer, sea power theorist, naval historian , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Gallipoli, Gallipoli campaign, Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign