Tancred Bradshaw concludes in his new e book – The End of Empire within the Gulf: From the Trucial States to the United Arab Emirates – that “the British imperial project in the Trucial States [the UAE] It was an unusual success story. “He issues out that these kinds of initiatives within the Middle East had been a failure, and the Gulf states stand out as a bit of of a contradiction.” In stark distinction to the opposite vassal areas,” he wrote, “documents testify that in Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the Trucial States, the rulers and their subjects did not want the British to withdraw before 1971.” Taking us from 1820 to 1971, the top of the empire… charts the Gulf From marginal house significance […]
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