In defence of Britain's Middle Eastern empire : : a life of Sir Gilbert Clayton / / Timothy J. Paris.

"T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as 'the perfect leader,' a man who 'worked by influence rather than by loud direction ... He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton w...

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Place / Publishing House:Brighton : : Sussex Academic Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • [I] Preparation
  • Introduction: Following the Furrow
  • Vectensian : Youth, 1875-95
  • The Lion and the Sphinx : The British Empire and the Middle East
  • A Smack at the Khalifa : The Sudan Campaign, 1898
  • Bimbashi : Clayton in the Egyptian Army
  • It A'int all Violets Here : Inspector in southern Sudan, 1902-3
  • Master : Private Secretary to Wingate, 1907-13
  • Sudan Agent : Cairo, 1913-14
  • [II] War
  • Intrusive : Organizing a Middle Eastern Intelligence, 1914-15
  • Our Friends Across the Water : Origins of the Anglo-Arab Alliance
  • Clayton and the Pledge : The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence
  • Like Permeating Oil : Counter-intelligence
  • Reorganizing the Intelligence, 1916
  • Egypt's Little Wars : the Conflicts in Libya and Darfur
  • Revolt! : The Arab Rising, 1916
  • Between the Upper and the Nether Millstone : The End of Intrusive, 1916
  • Chief of Staff, Hejaz Operations, 1917
  • A Very Deep Game : Anglo-French Rivalry in the Middle East
  • [III] Diplomacy
  • Jacob and Esau : Arabs and Jews in Palestine, 1918-19
  • A Nest of Intrigue : Allied Disputes in the Levant
  • The Shadow and the Substance : The Egyptian Revolution, 1919
  • Peace and Empire : The Middle Eastern Settlement
  • A Witch's Cauldron : Egypt, 1920-2
  • Palestine Revisited : Chief Secretary in the Mandate, 1923-5
  • Trouble in Transjordan : Clayton and Abdullah, 1923-5
  • Desert Diplomat : The Arabian Treaties, 1925-6
  • Rome and Jeddah : Eastern Diplomacy, 1927-8
  • The Attack of the Ikhwan : The Arabian Threat to Iraq, 1928
  • Final Posting : High Commissioner for Iraq, 1929
  • Conclusion: Friend of the Arabs
  • Appendix: Biographies.