Britain in the Islamic World

Justin Quinn Olmstead is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA. His previous publications include Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and The United States’ Entry into the First World War: The Role of British and German Diplomacy (2018).

• Preface.- Introduction to Part I.- A History of Violence? Islam, British Orientalism, and the Bombay Riot of 1851 – Andrew D. Magnusson.- Instruments of Acquisition and Reflections of Desire: English Nautical Charts and Islamic Shores, 1650-1700 – Alistair Maeer.- ‘Far from the orthodox road’: Conceptualizing the Shiʿa in the Nineteenth-Century – Conor Meleady.- Introduction to Part II.- Allies and Adversaries: Anglo-Ottoman Boundary Negotiation in the Middle East, 1906-1914 – James N. Tallon.- ‘A Test of Support”: British Policy towards the Ottoman Empire, 1913-1914 – Justin Quinn Olmstead.- ‘A Considerable Effect’: Winston Churchill and Wilfrid S. Blunt’s Legacy – Warren Docketer.- Introduction to Part III.- Britain, India, and the Somaliland Campaigns of 1901-04 – Derek W. Blakely.- Legislating Gender in Mandate Palestine: Colonial Laws on Midwifery, Employment and Marriage – Elizabeth Brownson.- Introduction to Part IV.- ‘What Britain has done for Islam’: British Propaganda to the Islamic World during WWII, 1939-1942 – Stefanie Wichhart.- British Encounters with the ‘Islamic World’ 1921-1989 – Pippa Catterall.-