Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Getting Started: The Search for Trade, 1555-1763
2. The Impact of the Seven Years War: Victory, Power and Dominance to 1797
3. The Napoleonic Wars and the Search for Regional Security, 198-1815
4. Expanded British Influence in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Egypt, 1815-1841
5. The 'Great Game' and Afghanistan, 1838-1842
6. The 'Eastern Question' and the Crimean War and its Causes, 1838-1856
7. The Question of Egypt, 1838-1879
8. The Invasion of Egypt, the Turbaning Point and Direct Control, 1882
9. Intervention's Aftermath and the Imperial Scramble, 1883-1914
10. The First World War, the Mesopotamian and Palestinian Campaigns and Treaty-Making, 1914-1918
11. War's Aftermath: The Watershed, 1918-1922
12. Tenacity Enshrined: Holding on, 1922-1940
13. Britain's 'Defense-Offense' in the Middle East in the Second World War, 1939-1945
14. The End of the Road: Exit from Empire, 1945-1971
15. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index