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From Empire to Orient

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

From Empire to Orient

By Geoffrey Nash

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About the book

"From Empire to Orient" offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both anti-imperialist and pro-Islamic. Geoffrey Nash places David Urquhart's passionate belief in the ideal of municipal ...Show more

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9781780764078

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I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.

Published year

2016

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1

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From Empire to Orient

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Paperback

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