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A brilliant narrative history tracing todays troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.
Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israels godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today. 30 illustrations; 2 mapsShareen Blair Brysac: author's other books
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A Washington Post best book of the year
A Times (London) history book of the year
A character-driven, complex and page-turning human story.
Times Literary Supplement
Sobering in its implications, but fortunately anything but in its narrative style, Kingmakers is an absorbing, illuminating read.
The Scotsman
A centurys worth of misjudgments, overreach, and catastrophe in the most accessible of containers.
Fortune
Admirably fair-minded and well-researched. The essay on how Wolfowitz convinced himself that what Iraq needed was the imposition of democracy is enlightening and commendably told.
New York Times
A satisfying, uncluttered account that makes a welcome addition to the shelf of books on the Middle East.
Kirkus Reviews
Offer[s] a panoply of stories with contemporary relevance and resonance. It would be wonderful if future generations of American leaders took some of this history to heart.
Truthdig
A timely and engrossing study of the men and women who were instrumental in giving birth to some of the nations, institutions and chronic problems of the area. This is an important work.
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
BY KARL E. MEYER
The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland
Fullbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker
The Plundered Past
The Cuban Invasion: The Chronicle of a Disaster (with Tad Szulc)
BY SHAREEN BLAIR BRYSAC
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Copyright 2008 by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
All rights reserved
First published as a Norton paperback 2009
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meyer, Karl Ernest.
Kingmakers: the invention of the modern Middle East / Karl E. Meyer
and Shareen Blair Brysac.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-393-33770-9
1. Middle EastHistory20th century. I. Brysac, Shareen Blair. II. Title.
DS62.8.M485 2008
956.04dc22
2008007378
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To our Oxford friends,
Gwyn Robyns, Isabelle Onians,
Godfrey and Hilary Hodgson,
and
Neville and Evelyn Maxwell
Lord Cromer
Dame Flora Shaw and Lord Frederick Lugard
Sir Mark Sykes
A. T. Wilson
Gertrude Bell
T. E. Lawrence
H. S. J. B. Philby
Glubb Pasha
General Ironside and the Three Percys (Sirs Cox, Sykes, and Loraine)
Kermit Roosevelt
Miles Copeland
Paul Wolfowitz
BT, Baronet
CB, Companion of the Order of the Bath
CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
CIE, Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
CMG, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George
CSI, Companion of the Order of the Star of India
DBE, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
DSO, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order
GCB, Knight or Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
GCMG, Knight of Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George
KCB, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
KCIE, Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
KCSI, Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India
OBE, Order of the British Empire
OM, Order of Merit
MC, Military Cross
MP, Member of Parliament
PC, Privy Counsellor
RA, Royal Academy
General Charles Gordon faces the Mahdis warriors, as depicted in a celebrated painting by George William Joy, although the true circumstances of his death can only be surmised.
Leeds City Art Gallery U.K./Bridgeman Art Library
Leander Starr Jameson as portrayed by Spy in Vanity Fair : A raider, a freebooter a filibusterRecent events have made him the most popular man in the Empire.
Vanity Fair
The Muslim Emirs of Northern Nigeria visit Lord Lugard (center) in England.
Bodleian Library, Oxford Library of Congress
King Faisal (left) and his brother Emir Abdullah in Jerusalem shortly before Faisals death. The white-turbaned Grand Mufti is in the middle.
Library of Congress
The victorious General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot through the Jaffa Gate, December 1917.
Library of Congress
T. E. Lawrence entering Damascus in a Rolls-Royce, October 1918, the climactic episode of the Arab Revolt.
Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
A recreational break at the Cairo Conference, March 1921. Gertrude Bell sits between Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence.
Gertrude Bell Photographic Archive, Newcastle
Ibn Saud meets Sir Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell at Basra, 1916.
Gertrude Bell Photographic Archive, Newcastle
The future King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (lower left) visits Kim Philby (next to Faisal) at a boarding school in England. Jack Philby is second from the right in the top row; Dora, his wife, stands in front of him.
Middle East Centre Archive, St Antonys College, Oxford
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