Empires of Intelligence by Martin Thomas

Empires of Intelligence by Martin Thomas

How did Great Britain and France, the largest imperial powers of the early twentieth century, cope with mounting anticolonial nationalism in the Arab world? What linked domestic opponents and foreign challengers in the Middle East and North Africa - Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt - as inhabitants attempted to overthrow the European colonial order? What strategies did the British and French adopt in the face of these threats? "Empires of Intelligence", the first study of colonial intelligence services to use recently declassified reports, argues that colonial control in the British and French empires depended on an elaborate security apparatus. Martin Thomas shows for the first time the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization.

"Provides a masterful synthesis of historiography with extensive archival research" H-Diplo/H-Net 20091206 "Fascinating... Impressive... Thomas should be applauded." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes) 20100715

Martin Thomas is Reader in Colonial History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The French Empire at War (1998), The French North African Crisis (2000), and The French Empire between the Wars. Imperialism, Politics, and Society (2005).

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ISBN 13	9780520251175
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Title	Empires of Intelligence
Author	Martin Thomas
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Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2007-10-09
Number of pages	446
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