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Without glory in Arabia : the British retreat from Aden /

'So we left without glory but without disaster', Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, the last High Commissioner of the Federation of South Arabia. In 1967, 139 years after their arrival in Aden, the British withdrew from the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Using important, previously unpublishe...

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Основен автор: Hinchcliffe, Peter, 1937-
Други автори: Ducker, John T., Holt, Maria.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Серия: International library of colonial history ; 5.
Предмети:
1900-1999
British > History.
Colonial administrators > Diaries.
Colonial administrators > Yemen, South.
HISTORY > General.
British.
Colonial administrators.
Diplomatic relations.
Protectorate of South Arabia > History.
Yemen, South > History > 20th century.
Yemen, South > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Yemen, South.
Great Britain.
Yemen, South.
Electronic books.
Diaries.
History.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=180395
Подобни документи: Print version:: Without glory in Arabia.
Съдържание:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Aden: a poem by James Nash
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations and acronyms
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical and constitutional background
  • 2. The international context of South Arabia and British policy
  • 3. The Political Officers in the Western Aden Protectorate
  • 4. The Eastern Aden Protectorate (EAP)
  • 5. Robin Young's diaries
  • 6. The military
  • 7. Aden: the 1966 Defence White Paper
  • 8. British civilians reflect on the end of empire in Aden
  • 9. An oral history of colonialism and revolution in Southern Yemen
  • 10. Britain and Aden: a relationship for the twenty-first century
  • Appendix 1: Sir Richard Turnbull remembers
  • Appendix 2: Mukalla 1960
  • Appendix 3: Peter Hinchcliffe's letter of appointment
  • Appendix 4: An oral history of the British in Aden
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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