Demise of the British empire in the Middle East : Britain's responses to nationalist movements, 1943-55 / edited by Michael J. Cohen and Martin Kolinsky
Britain and decolonization : the labour governments and the Middle East, 1941-51 / Nicholas Owen -- The strategic role of the Middle East after the war / Michael J. Cohen -- Britain and the politics of the Arab League, 1943-50 / Michael Thornhill -- Economic aspects of the Arab nationalism / Rodney Wilson -- A new Middle East? the crystallization of the Arab state system after the Second World War / Bruce Maddy-Weitzman -- Lampson and the wartime control of Egypt / Martin Kolinsky -- Egypt 1945-52 : the uses of disorder / Charles Tripp -- Britain and the Egyptian problem, 1945-48 / John Kent -- Discord or partnership? British and American policy toward Egypt, 1942-56 / Peter L. Hahn -- The decline of British influence and the ruling elite in Iraq / Michael Eppel -- British rule in Jordan, 1943-55 / Ilan Pappé -- Britain and the Palestine question, 1945-48 : the dialectic of regional and international constraints / Avraham Sela
Summary
Britain emerged from World War II dependent economically and militarily upon the US. Egypt was the hub of Britain's imperial interests in the Middle East, but her inability to maintain a large garrison there was clear to the indigenous peoples. These essays track the decline of the empire
