Book Details
Orange Code:33167
Paperback:292 pages
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1. “Toll-Gates of Empire”: Britain, the United States, and the Persian Gulf Region before 19512. Anticolonialism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and Cold War: Anglo-American Relations in the Persian Gulf Region, 1950–19563. “A Delicate Structure”: Consolidation and Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region, 1957–19604. “What a World It Is!”: Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Persian Gulf Region, 1961–19635. “For God’s Sake, Act Like Britain!”: Johnson, Wilson, and Britain’s Decision to Withdraw from the Persian Gulf Region, 1964–19686. “The Twilight of the Pax Britannica”: The United States and Britain’s Departure from the Persian Gulf Region, 1968–1972
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This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.
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