Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization

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Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization The Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1945-1956

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By W. Travis Hanes, III

ISBN: 0-313-29341-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29341-2

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208 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 9/30/1995

List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

History » African History
History » Middle Eastern History

Series Title: Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies

Series Number: 30

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Examining ten years of Anglo-Egyptian diplomacy, Hanes focuses on the issues of Egyptian independence and the separation of Sudan from Egypt. Calling his analysis 'quite frankly revisionist,' Hanes reconstricts the means by which Ernest Bevin's policy toward the Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian treaty revision was forced on him by expatriate British administrators of the Sudan condominium government...Upper-division undergraduates and above.
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Description: This book provides a detailed examination of the role played by the Sudan Political Service in Anglo-Egyptian relations from the end of the Second World War, when Egypt formally demanded revision of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, through the conclusion of an Anglo-Egyptian Agreement on the Sudan in 1953 in the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution, and up to Sudanese independence in January 1956, on the eve of the Suez Crisis. Drawing on official documents and private papers, this study challenges conventional interpretations of British policy toward the Sudan and Egypt in this period, and it concludes that both the British Labour Government and its Conservative successor were prepared to make major concessions to Egypt in the Sudan in exchange for an acceptable treaty of alliance that would guarantee British access to the strategic Suez Canal Zone. It was the Sudan Government, the "colonial" administration dominated by British expatriate administrators, that stymied all efforts to achieve Anglo-Egyptian agreement at the expense of the Service's own plans for a fully-independent Sudanese state. This book will be of interest to researchers of British colonialism and modern Middle Eastern and African history.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction: The Problem
The Politics of Condominium: Winter and Spring 1946
Anglo-Egyptian Negotiations: The "Stonewall" of the Sudan
The Bevin-Sidqi Protocol
The "Revolt" of the Sudan Political Service
The U.N. Debacle and After
Cutting the Gordian Knot
Resolution
Conclusion: Imperialism or "Expatriate Nationalism"?
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 94-7421

LCC Class: DT82

Dewey Class: 327.62041


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