ABSTRACT
Timothy Paris examines Winston Churchill's involvement in the struggle for power in a number of Middle Eastern countries between 1920 and 1925. His study traces the development of the Sherifian policy, a policy that was devised by the British.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
part I|57 pages
Britain and The Hashemites, 1914–19: an Overview
chapter 1|12 pages
Husain ibn Ali and the Amirate of Mecca
chapter 2|27 pages
War and Promises
chapter 3|17 pages
Towards a Settlement
part II|82 pages
‘An Amir Such As We Desire’: Faisal for Mesopotamia
chapter 4|18 pages
The Parallélisme Exact
chapter 5|21 pages
The Wilsonian and the Lawrentian Schools
chapter 6|16 pages
Restructuring Middle East Policy-making
chapter 7|26 pages
‘Very Much the First Choice’
part III|95 pages
Sunny Jim
chapter 8|31 pages
Fait Accompli, 1920–21
chapter 9|21 pages
More of a Picnic than an Administration
chapter 10|23 pages
The 1923 Assurance
chapter 11|19 pages
The Limits of Support
part IV|115 pages
‘A Pampered and Querulous Nuisance’: King Husain and The Failure of The Sherifian Solution in The Hijaz
