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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788319249
• ISBN13: 9781788319249
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 392 Pages