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1. Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf

   Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71

   By Simon C. Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of the Middle East

   Britain's relationship with the Gulf region remains one of the few unexplored episodes in the study of British decolonization. The decision, announced in 1968, to leave the Gulf within three years represented an explicit recognition by Britain that its 'East of Suez' role was at an end. This book...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Ending Empire in the Middle East

   Britain, the United States and Post-war Decolonization, 1945-1973

   By Simon C. Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

   This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge