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An Arabian Diary (Hardcover)
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This personal diary of six months of diplomacy and travel in Arabia
represents and impressive document to the quiet ability and
resourcefulness of one of Great Britain's leading officials in the
Middle East in the 1920's. The sudden expansion of the
Arabian Sultanate of Najd under the leadership of 'Abd-al-'Aziz ibn
Sa'ud after the First World War presented a clear danger to British
interests in the Middle East and threatened the strategically
important Arabian corridor to India. To resolve this project the
British government selected Sir Gilbert Clayton as their envoy to
negotiate a settlement of differences and to determine the frontier
between Saudi Arabia and the British Mandates of Trans-Jordan and
Iraq. Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton (1875-1929) was a quiet,
able soldier, administrator, and diplomat who had come out to eh
Middle East during the reconquest of the Sudan and remained as a
political officer in theSudan service, secretary to the
Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wingate, and finally
the Sudan agent at Cairo. At the outbreak of the First World War,
Clayton served as the director of Military Intelligence an forged
that remarkable intelligence team which included among others
Leonard Woolley, George Lloyd, and T.E. Lawrence. Experience and
resourceful, Clayton was an obvious choice to travel to the tents
of Iban Sa'ud where the autumn of 1925 he negotiated the Bahra and
Hadda Agreements fixing the frontiers of Saudi Arabia with
Trans-Jordan and Iraq and cementing friendship between Britain and
Ibn Sa'ud. These results represent a brilliant triumph of personal
diplomacy which protected British interests and inaugurated the
lifelong friendship between Sir Gilbert and Ibn Sa'ud. The
story of these negotiations and Sir Gilbert's subsequent mission to
the Imam of Yemen as the first official representative of the
British government to visit San'a' are told in this valuable
historical diary. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1969.Â
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
First published: |
1969 |
Authors: |
Gilbert Clyaton
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Editors: |
Robert O. Collins
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
396 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-35863-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-520-35863-5 |
Barcode: |
9780520358638 |
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