The struggle for a new Middle East in the 20th century studies in imperial design and national politics

Helmut Mejcher was professor for Modern History with special reference to the Middle East and the Mediterranean at the University of Hamburg from 1977-2002. This collection of studies by Helmut Mejcher is published on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It testifies to a lifetime of research on the h...

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Main Author: Mejcher, Helmut (Author)
Other Authors: Dawletschin-Linder, Camilla (Editor), Schmidt-Dumont, Marianne (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin Lit [2007]
Series:Periplus Parerga Bd. 11
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505 0 |a Oil and British policy towards Mesopotamia, 1914-1918 -- British Middle East policy : the inter-departmental level -- Some aspects of the German Baghdad railway policy -- American oil interests and policies of penetration in Saudia Arabia and the Gulf in World War II -- Iraq's external relations, 1921-26 -- Political challenges in the Middle East and some responses by the young Arnold Toynbee -- Social change and political modernization in the Arab Gulf States : a challenge to the traditionalism of alien politico-military dominance? -- Umar al-Mukhtar and the Jihad against Italian colonialism : the contemporary German perception -- North Africa in the strategy and politics of the Axis powers, 1936-1943 -- The West German economic and financial interests in the Arab world -- Saudi Arabia's 'vital link to the West' : some political, strategic and tribal aspects of the Transarabian Pipeline (TAP) in the stage of planning, 1942-1950 -- Germany's relations to the near and Middle East, 1934-1984 -- Egypt and the Mediterranean in World War II : the Middle East supply centre in perspective -- Saudi Arabia's relationship with Germany under King Abdul Aziz -- Banking and the German oil industry, 1890-1939 -- The socio-economic impact of the Second World War on Egypt -- The Arab Middle East in the 20th century : historical turning points and structural profiles -- Prospects of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence : former attempts at a regional economic integration -- King Faisel Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud in the arena of world politics : a glimpse from Washington, 1950-1971 -- The June 1967 War : new aspects and research results -- American commercial and cultural approaches to to the Middle East in the mid-20th century : Harold B. Hoskins missions to the Middle East during the Second World War -- Hitler's route to Baghdad? Some aspects of German oil policy and political thinking on the Middle East in the 1930s and early 1940s -- The plight and relief of God's nation : the First World War and the German Templar community in Palestine -- Germany and Saudi Arabia : encounters in the 20th century. 
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