Outskirts of Empire

John Fisher is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of the West of England, UK. His previous publications have focused largely on British interests in the Middle East and North Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as on other aspects of British foreign policy in that timeframe.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Britain and Abyssinia: the forward view Chapter 2: Mesopotamia in the official mind, before, during and after the First World War Chapter 3: The Politics of Relief: British humanitarian aid to the Turk, 1876–7 Chapter 4: ‘Casting out Devils’: British military consuls in Turkey Chapter 5: A spearhead of influence in the Near East: the New Levant Company and British commerce in the aftermath of war Chapter 6: The Foreign Office and the issue of sacred space in Morocco, c1860 to 1970 Bibliography