Changing Languages of Empire and the Orient

Britain and the Invention of the Middle East, 1917–1918

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ID8958466
AutoresJames Renton (0000-0002-9923-6106, Edge Hill University, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume50
Fascículo3
Páginas645-667
Data de publicação2007-08-28
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x07006292
OpenAlexW2091822884
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas8

During the last two years of the Great War the British government undertook a global propaganda campaign to generate support for the military advance into the Near East, British post-war domination of the region, and the war effort in general. The objective was to transform how the West and the peoples of the Ottoman empire perceived the Orient, its future, and the British empire. To fit with the international demand that the war should be fought for the cause of national self-determination, the Orient was re-defined as the Middle East: a region of oppressed nations that required liberation and tutelage by Britain and the entente. Great Britain was portrayed as the pre-eminent champion of the principle of nationality, which was behind its move into the Middle East. It is argued in this article that these narratives constituted a significant change in Western representations of the Orient and the British empire

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · British Empire · Champion · Economic history · Empire · Far East · First world war · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Literature · Middle East · Narrative · Nationality · Orient · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Historical Turkish Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law

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