British imperialism and 'the tribal question' : desert administration and nomadic societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 10267
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198729310
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Rooted in several years of work in archives in the UK and USA, this book reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East. It advances an original argument about the significance of Britain's desert presence for scholars of the region and of imperialism. It challenges the marginalising of frontier 'margins' and combines the study of imperialism, nomads and the desert to reveal the centrality of 'desert administration' to Britain's empire, thereby repositioning neglected frontier areas as nerve centres of imperial activity. ‘Fletcher's book represents a remarkable intellectual enterprise’ (English Historical Review).
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- Non-English
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