Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22

KRISTIAN COATES ULRICHSEN is Deputy Director of the Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and his research focuses on the history and politics of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.

• Map Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART I The Political Economy of Empire before 1914 Expansion of the Campaigns,1915-16 Intensification of Wartime Control, 1917-18 PART II Deepening the Colonial State Mobilisation of Labour for Logistical Units Extraction of Agricultural Resources PART III Post-war Backlash and Imperial Readjustment, 1919-22 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index