Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Britain, peasants, and pashas: debating approaches to modernization in the postwar Middle East
- 2 Imperial dreams and delusions: the economics of promoting Middle East modernization
- 3 The British Middle East Office and the abandonment of imperial approaches to modernization
- 4 The British Middle East Office and the politics of modernization in Iran, 1945 to 1951
- 5 The British Middle East Office and the politics of modernization in Iraq, 1945 to 1958
- 6 The British Middle East Office and the politics of modernization in Jordan, 1951 to 1958
- Conclusion: ‘hastening slowly’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Britain, peasants, and pashas: debating approaches to modernization in the postwar Middle East
- 2 Imperial dreams and delusions: the economics of promoting Middle East modernization
- 3 The British Middle East Office and the abandonment of imperial approaches to modernization
- 4 The British Middle East Office and the politics of modernization in Iran, 1945 to 1951
- 5 The British Middle East Office and the politics of modernization in Iraq, 1945 to 1958
- 6 The British Middle East Office and the politics of modernization in Jordan, 1951 to 1958
- Conclusion: ‘hastening slowly’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996