Brian Holden Reid
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198222996
- eISBN:
- 9780191678561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198222996.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This chapter examines the biographies written about the role of British Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt during World War I. The Lawrence legend in its fullest sense was the ...
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This chapter examines the biographies written about the role of British Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt during World War I. The Lawrence legend in its fullest sense was the progeny of journalists rather than historians or participants in the revolt. In this regard, American journalist Lowell Thomas was especially influential because it was his picture show about Lawrence in Arabia that drew an enormous audience and framed the terms of reference for the ensuing legend. Some of the most notable works about Lawrence include the biographies With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas, Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves, and his own autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom.Less
This chapter examines the biographies written about the role of British Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt during World War I. The Lawrence legend in its fullest sense was the progeny of journalists rather than historians or participants in the revolt. In this regard, American journalist Lowell Thomas was especially influential because it was his picture show about Lawrence in Arabia that drew an enormous audience and framed the terms of reference for the ensuing legend. Some of the most notable works about Lawrence include the biographies With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas, Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves, and his own autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Brian Bond (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198222996
- eISBN:
- 9780191678561
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198222996.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This book is a study of the historiography of the First World War. The First World War remains controversial in its conduct and broader implications, and this volume explores many issues which ...
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This book is a study of the historiography of the First World War. The First World War remains controversial in its conduct and broader implications, and this volume explores many issues which continue to cause debate, such as Haig's generalship, the role of T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt, and the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. It also examines the new approaches to the war stimulated by the fiftieth anniversaries in the 1960s, and follows them through to contemporary concern with the experiences of ordinary soldiers and their chroniclers. The book provides new insights into the age-old problems of war and attitudes to warfare. Its purpose is to demonstrate how our understanding of war and our image of the First World War have been shaped by the historical writing of the 20th century.Less
This book is a study of the historiography of the First World War. The First World War remains controversial in its conduct and broader implications, and this volume explores many issues which continue to cause debate, such as Haig's generalship, the role of T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt, and the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. It also examines the new approaches to the war stimulated by the fiftieth anniversaries in the 1960s, and follows them through to contemporary concern with the experiences of ordinary soldiers and their chroniclers. The book provides new insights into the age-old problems of war and attitudes to warfare. Its purpose is to demonstrate how our understanding of war and our image of the First World War have been shaped by the historical writing of the 20th century.
Priya Satia
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195331417
- eISBN:
- 9780199868070
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331417.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter describes the wartime application of the intuitive intelligence mode in new domains, including policing, colonial administration, and military tactics. The intelligence strategy morphed ...
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This chapter describes the wartime application of the intuitive intelligence mode in new domains, including policing, colonial administration, and military tactics. The intelligence strategy morphed from a means of gathering knowledge to a means of acquiring political control. As agents strove to fulfill their dreams of adventure in Arabia, they strayed into the realm of warfare, applying their expertise on Arab affairs to the use and theorization of irregular warfare, deception tactics, and airpower, all of which set the Middle East campaigns apart from the war of attrition in Europe. The official construction of Arabia as a “spy-space” where the expert agent knew how to meet cunning with cunning was central in the articulation of these tactics and underwrote the adoption of an avowedly conscienceless approach to involvement in the Middle East.Less
This chapter describes the wartime application of the intuitive intelligence mode in new domains, including policing, colonial administration, and military tactics. The intelligence strategy morphed from a means of gathering knowledge to a means of acquiring political control. As agents strove to fulfill their dreams of adventure in Arabia, they strayed into the realm of warfare, applying their expertise on Arab affairs to the use and theorization of irregular warfare, deception tactics, and airpower, all of which set the Middle East campaigns apart from the war of attrition in Europe. The official construction of Arabia as a “spy-space” where the expert agent knew how to meet cunning with cunning was central in the articulation of these tactics and underwrote the adoption of an avowedly conscienceless approach to involvement in the Middle East.
Patrick Deer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199239887
- eISBN:
- 9780191716782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239887.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Chapter 2 traces the literary response to the seductive futurist appeal and colonialist genealogy of air power in two World Wars. After the Great War, the “empire of the air” was celebrated as a ...
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Chapter 2 traces the literary response to the seductive futurist appeal and colonialist genealogy of air power in two World Wars. After the Great War, the “empire of the air” was celebrated as a last resort of martial heroism and the colonies provided laboratories for experiment. The interwar period saw the consolidating imperial gaze of air power and mechanized war turned on the civilian home front as both apocalyptic nightmare and escapist fantasy. This chapter explores T.E. Lawrence's haunting fantasies of air power as he dedicated mind and body to the RAF's role in policing the empire in the 1920s and 30s. It argues that for those who waged the war of space and movement, the mythology of armored masculinity and panoramic vision all too often resulted in blackout and bodily disintegration. It explores these conflicts of “airmindedness” in the work of Virginia Woolf, Rex Warner, George Orwell, Richard Hillary, and Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris.Less
Chapter 2 traces the literary response to the seductive futurist appeal and colonialist genealogy of air power in two World Wars. After the Great War, the “empire of the air” was celebrated as a last resort of martial heroism and the colonies provided laboratories for experiment. The interwar period saw the consolidating imperial gaze of air power and mechanized war turned on the civilian home front as both apocalyptic nightmare and escapist fantasy. This chapter explores T.E. Lawrence's haunting fantasies of air power as he dedicated mind and body to the RAF's role in policing the empire in the 1920s and 30s. It argues that for those who waged the war of space and movement, the mythology of armored masculinity and panoramic vision all too often resulted in blackout and bodily disintegration. It explores these conflicts of “airmindedness” in the work of Virginia Woolf, Rex Warner, George Orwell, Richard Hillary, and Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris.
Ann Oakley
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447355830
- eISBN:
- 9781447355878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447355830.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a wealthy Irish heiress, married the playwright and social critic George Bernard Shaw, in 1898. Biographers have been obsessed with the nature of the Shaws’ marriage and ...
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a wealthy Irish heiress, married the playwright and social critic George Bernard Shaw, in 1898. Biographers have been obsessed with the nature of the Shaws’ marriage and have failed to recognise the extent of Charlotte’s own work in drama, literature, education and social welfare. She was a founder of the London School of Economics, financing its early development, and an active member of the women’s group in the Fabian Society. She was also an important inspiration for, and editor of, T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom.Less
Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a wealthy Irish heiress, married the playwright and social critic George Bernard Shaw, in 1898. Biographers have been obsessed with the nature of the Shaws’ marriage and have failed to recognise the extent of Charlotte’s own work in drama, literature, education and social welfare. She was a founder of the London School of Economics, financing its early development, and an active member of the women’s group in the Fabian Society. She was also an important inspiration for, and editor of, T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Deborah Lavin
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198126164
- eISBN:
- 9780191671623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198126164.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Curtis was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls, renewing an attachment to Oxford that lasted for the rest of his life. Influential American industrialists and academics and Dominion magnates ...
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Curtis was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls, renewing an attachment to Oxford that lasted for the rest of his life. Influential American industrialists and academics and Dominion magnates frequented the College as his weekend guests. His rather surprising friendship with T. E. Lawrence had begun in London. Curtis has been elected to his Fellowship to complete The Commonwealth of Nations, but he found that ‘the political landscape had so changed, and my own outlook upon it had widened to such an extent, that the “Commonwealth of Nations” Part I was too obsolete to continue’. The extraordinary title and form Curtis chose — Civitas Dei — show that he was still labouring to reconcile responsible government and internationalism, his principle of Commonwealth with his personal morality and hatred over war.Less
Curtis was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls, renewing an attachment to Oxford that lasted for the rest of his life. Influential American industrialists and academics and Dominion magnates frequented the College as his weekend guests. His rather surprising friendship with T. E. Lawrence had begun in London. Curtis has been elected to his Fellowship to complete The Commonwealth of Nations, but he found that ‘the political landscape had so changed, and my own outlook upon it had widened to such an extent, that the “Commonwealth of Nations” Part I was too obsolete to continue’. The extraordinary title and form Curtis chose — Civitas Dei — show that he was still labouring to reconcile responsible government and internationalism, his principle of Commonwealth with his personal morality and hatred over war.
Shawn Malley
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786941190
- eISBN:
- 9781789629088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941190.003.0009
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Prometheus (2012) provides ample material for cyborg criticism in the figure of its android protagonist, David. Modelling himself after the archaeologist, promoter of Arab nationalism and British spy ...
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Prometheus (2012) provides ample material for cyborg criticism in the figure of its android protagonist, David. Modelling himself after the archaeologist, promoter of Arab nationalism and British spy T.E. Lawrence, David functions as both a cultural artefact in, and an agent of, Prometheus's expedition to the origins of human life, an enterprise that, like Lawrence’s, is an anthropological recovery of an early phase of civilization that promotes the interests of the industrial-military complex that David serves (in Lawrence's case, Britain's Foreign and Colonial Office). David is the pivot upon which the film's historical fabula turns, is the "cyborg site" from which the diegetic environment of material science flows: as a non-human marginalized figure, the cyborg David simultaneously embodies and resists the originary trajectory and the racist/speciesist discourse that lay at the heart of early archaeological thinking. Ultimately, theories of common origins that infuse Scott's film are dismantled along with the conservative political agendas such myths serve. As a signifier of the archaeological business of gathering artefacts into partial typologies of origins and progress, the cyborg archaeologist is a fitting coda to my investigation of the uneasy and ongoing alliance between archaeology and global politics circulating in the popular imaginary of SF.Less
Prometheus (2012) provides ample material for cyborg criticism in the figure of its android protagonist, David. Modelling himself after the archaeologist, promoter of Arab nationalism and British spy T.E. Lawrence, David functions as both a cultural artefact in, and an agent of, Prometheus's expedition to the origins of human life, an enterprise that, like Lawrence’s, is an anthropological recovery of an early phase of civilization that promotes the interests of the industrial-military complex that David serves (in Lawrence's case, Britain's Foreign and Colonial Office). David is the pivot upon which the film's historical fabula turns, is the "cyborg site" from which the diegetic environment of material science flows: as a non-human marginalized figure, the cyborg David simultaneously embodies and resists the originary trajectory and the racist/speciesist discourse that lay at the heart of early archaeological thinking. Ultimately, theories of common origins that infuse Scott's film are dismantled along with the conservative political agendas such myths serve. As a signifier of the archaeological business of gathering artefacts into partial typologies of origins and progress, the cyborg archaeologist is a fitting coda to my investigation of the uneasy and ongoing alliance between archaeology and global politics circulating in the popular imaginary of SF.
Medd Jodie
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474401692
- eISBN:
- 9781474422123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401692.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Medd examines the correspondence between E.M. Forster and T.E. Lawrence, in which new possibilities of both male intimacy and masculine self-understanding were achieved through an exchange of writing ...
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Medd examines the correspondence between E.M. Forster and T.E. Lawrence, in which new possibilities of both male intimacy and masculine self-understanding were achieved through an exchange of writing and reading. This epistolary literary exchange eschewed conventions of published literary circulation and reconfigured the traditional reader-writer dyad. As Forster and Lawrence forged a friendship through the exchange of literary materials – including Forster’s ‘unpublishable’ fiction – and a self-reflective dialogue over their experiences of reading one another’s literature and absorbing their interlocutor’s response to their own writing, they negotiated the tricky landscape of male intimacy heightened with homoerotic possibilities, while also discovering and re-imagining new possibilities of (homo)sexual and literary self-understanding. The correspondence constitutes an alternative queer circuit of literary exchange, in which scenes of reading and writing form bonds of male intimacy that re imagine both the terms of masculine identity and desire and the very terms of the literary itself.Less
Medd examines the correspondence between E.M. Forster and T.E. Lawrence, in which new possibilities of both male intimacy and masculine self-understanding were achieved through an exchange of writing and reading. This epistolary literary exchange eschewed conventions of published literary circulation and reconfigured the traditional reader-writer dyad. As Forster and Lawrence forged a friendship through the exchange of literary materials – including Forster’s ‘unpublishable’ fiction – and a self-reflective dialogue over their experiences of reading one another’s literature and absorbing their interlocutor’s response to their own writing, they negotiated the tricky landscape of male intimacy heightened with homoerotic possibilities, while also discovering and re-imagining new possibilities of (homo)sexual and literary self-understanding. The correspondence constitutes an alternative queer circuit of literary exchange, in which scenes of reading and writing form bonds of male intimacy that re imagine both the terms of masculine identity and desire and the very terms of the literary itself.
Valentine Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198229742
- eISBN:
- 9780191678912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229742.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the literary culture of the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. Twentieth-century Oxford contained an extraordinary matrix of extraordinary literary talent. It ...
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This chapter examines the literary culture of the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. Twentieth-century Oxford contained an extraordinary matrix of extraordinary literary talent. It educated some of the most notable personalities in English literature including T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, T. E. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley, and J. R. R. Tolkien. This flourishing of literary talent could be attributed to the university's strategy of incorporating creative writing to its literary courses and its ability to attract talented teachers and students from home and abroad.Less
This chapter examines the literary culture of the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. Twentieth-century Oxford contained an extraordinary matrix of extraordinary literary talent. It educated some of the most notable personalities in English literature including T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, T. E. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley, and J. R. R. Tolkien. This flourishing of literary talent could be attributed to the university's strategy of incorporating creative writing to its literary courses and its ability to attract talented teachers and students from home and abroad.
Sonia Sabnis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the reception of Robert Graves’s translation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its relation to his friendship with T. E. Lawrence. A claim in its American publication—that Lawrence ...
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This chapter examines the reception of Robert Graves’s translation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its relation to his friendship with T. E. Lawrence. A claim in its American publication—that Lawrence carried the Golden Ass with him in Arabia and later introduced it to Graves—turns out to be false, but nevertheless opens up a comparison between Lawrence and Graves as readers of Apuleius. Despite the limited success of Graves’s translation in academic circles, Lawrence’s and Graves’s respective approaches to the novel exemplify two major trends in its among English-speaking audiences since the appearance of Graves’s translation in 1950.Less
This chapter examines the reception of Robert Graves’s translation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its relation to his friendship with T. E. Lawrence. A claim in its American publication—that Lawrence carried the Golden Ass with him in Arabia and later introduced it to Graves—turns out to be false, but nevertheless opens up a comparison between Lawrence and Graves as readers of Apuleius. Despite the limited success of Graves’s translation in academic circles, Lawrence’s and Graves’s respective approaches to the novel exemplify two major trends in its among English-speaking audiences since the appearance of Graves’s translation in 1950.
Allan Christelow
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037554
- eISBN:
- 9780813043975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037554.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter begins with the Italian invasion of Libya, which reinvigorated the Pan Islam movement, and the French decision to impose military conscription on Algerian Muslims, which set off a new ...
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This chapter begins with the Italian invasion of Libya, which reinvigorated the Pan Islam movement, and the French decision to impose military conscription on Algerian Muslims, which set off a new wave of hijra to the east. It moves through World War I, when Algerians served as soldiers and workers in France, and Islamic movements stirred rebellions in the Sahara. During the war, the French organized a pilgrimage to Mecca for North African Muslims, led by Algerians. The Algerian community in Syria was a lively environment, the scene of a debate over whether to trust English support for the Arab Revolt or attempt to negotiate with Young Turk authorities, and of a dynamic movement to promote Muslim girls' education led by Naziq al-̓Abid. On the final day of the war a grandson of ̓Abd al-Qadir who had worked with T.E. Lawrence, then turned against him, was killed by Sharifian forces in Damascus.Less
This chapter begins with the Italian invasion of Libya, which reinvigorated the Pan Islam movement, and the French decision to impose military conscription on Algerian Muslims, which set off a new wave of hijra to the east. It moves through World War I, when Algerians served as soldiers and workers in France, and Islamic movements stirred rebellions in the Sahara. During the war, the French organized a pilgrimage to Mecca for North African Muslims, led by Algerians. The Algerian community in Syria was a lively environment, the scene of a debate over whether to trust English support for the Arab Revolt or attempt to negotiate with Young Turk authorities, and of a dynamic movement to promote Muslim girls' education led by Naziq al-̓Abid. On the final day of the war a grandson of ̓Abd al-Qadir who had worked with T.E. Lawrence, then turned against him, was killed by Sharifian forces in Damascus.
Nicholas J. Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198722007
- eISBN:
- 9780191895746
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198722007.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Non-Classical
This chapter addresses how the First World War revitalised the Hejaz Railway, but not always as the new Turkish government, their German allies, or the British could have foreseen. No one could have ...
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This chapter addresses how the First World War revitalised the Hejaz Railway, but not always as the new Turkish government, their German allies, or the British could have foreseen. No one could have predicted the role the faithful railroad would play in the coming conflict, its momentous consequences, or its galvanizing role in creating modern guerrilla warfare. And nobody, let alone the recently volunteered intelligence officer 2nd Lieutenant T. E. Lawrence, could have recognized that Abdulhamid II’s dream railway would be a catalyst for the modern legend of Lawrence of Arabia. The railroad had been a strategic artery since its inception. Despite Ottoman emphasis on its religious role, and its economic and cultural effects along its route, there had always been a geopolitical dimension, as it bypassed the Suez Canal and threatened British India and the Far East. Yet there was nothing inevitable about a war fought along its length. The railroad was to be an unexpected proving ground for a new form of conflict with global reach based on a modern adaptation of traditional Bedouin raiding, itself honed by centuries of attacking Hajj caravans.Less
This chapter addresses how the First World War revitalised the Hejaz Railway, but not always as the new Turkish government, their German allies, or the British could have foreseen. No one could have predicted the role the faithful railroad would play in the coming conflict, its momentous consequences, or its galvanizing role in creating modern guerrilla warfare. And nobody, let alone the recently volunteered intelligence officer 2nd Lieutenant T. E. Lawrence, could have recognized that Abdulhamid II’s dream railway would be a catalyst for the modern legend of Lawrence of Arabia. The railroad had been a strategic artery since its inception. Despite Ottoman emphasis on its religious role, and its economic and cultural effects along its route, there had always been a geopolitical dimension, as it bypassed the Suez Canal and threatened British India and the Far East. Yet there was nothing inevitable about a war fought along its length. The railroad was to be an unexpected proving ground for a new form of conflict with global reach based on a modern adaptation of traditional Bedouin raiding, itself honed by centuries of attacking Hajj caravans.
Nicholas J. Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198722007
- eISBN:
- 9780191895746
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198722007.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Non-Classical
This book explores the once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway in the desert sands of southern Jordan. Built at the beginning of the twentieth century. This railway track stretched ...
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This book explores the once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway in the desert sands of southern Jordan. Built at the beginning of the twentieth century. This railway track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counterinsurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare; the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors; and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls-Royce armoured-car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the actual site of the Hallat Ammar railway ambush. Ultimately, this unique and richly illustrated account tells, in intimate detail, the story of a seminal episode of the First World War and the reshaping of the Middle East that followed.Less
This book explores the once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway in the desert sands of southern Jordan. Built at the beginning of the twentieth century. This railway track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counterinsurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare; the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors; and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls-Royce armoured-car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the actual site of the Hallat Ammar railway ambush. Ultimately, this unique and richly illustrated account tells, in intimate detail, the story of a seminal episode of the First World War and the reshaping of the Middle East that followed.
Ruth Barton
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780813147093
- eISBN:
- 9780813151496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813147093.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses rumors that Ingram might have converted to Islam. It describes his final films and his increasing difficulty in keeping abreast of Hollywood filmmaking techniques. It discusses ...
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This chapter discusses rumors that Ingram might have converted to Islam. It describes his final films and his increasing difficulty in keeping abreast of Hollywood filmmaking techniques. It discusses his friendship with T. E. Lawrence and their shared interest in the desert. It ends with his retirement from filmmaking.Less
This chapter discusses rumors that Ingram might have converted to Islam. It describes his final films and his increasing difficulty in keeping abreast of Hollywood filmmaking techniques. It discusses his friendship with T. E. Lawrence and their shared interest in the desert. It ends with his retirement from filmmaking.
Philip Burton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter investigates why Robert Graves so consistently and explicitly adopts a ‘plain-prose’ translation technique even when translating authors as varied as Apuleius, Lucan, Suetonius, and ...
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This chapter investigates why Robert Graves so consistently and explicitly adopts a ‘plain-prose’ translation technique even when translating authors as varied as Apuleius, Lucan, Suetonius, and Homer. It considers Graves’s statements on the role of the translator (traditionally seen as a secondary figure, dependent on the individual genius of the original author), and compares these with his view of poets (such as himself) as inspired devotees of the White Goddess. A partial explanation is offered in Graves’s self-positioning vis à vis other translators, such as Samuel Butler and T. E. Lawrence. Particular attention is given to his insistent appeal to Irish and Welsh traditions of poetry, and to his paradoxical status in the 1950s as both established literary figure and self-proclaimed outsider.Less
This chapter investigates why Robert Graves so consistently and explicitly adopts a ‘plain-prose’ translation technique even when translating authors as varied as Apuleius, Lucan, Suetonius, and Homer. It considers Graves’s statements on the role of the translator (traditionally seen as a secondary figure, dependent on the individual genius of the original author), and compares these with his view of poets (such as himself) as inspired devotees of the White Goddess. A partial explanation is offered in Graves’s self-positioning vis à vis other translators, such as Samuel Butler and T. E. Lawrence. Particular attention is given to his insistent appeal to Irish and Welsh traditions of poetry, and to his paradoxical status in the 1950s as both established literary figure and self-proclaimed outsider.
Daniel Foliard
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226451336
- eISBN:
- 9780226451473
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226451473.003.0009
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cartography
This chapter sets out to assess the effects of the militarization of the region’s cartography during the first world war. It calls into question the traditional assumption that the “Middle East” only ...
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This chapter sets out to assess the effects of the militarization of the region’s cartography during the first world war. It calls into question the traditional assumption that the “Middle East” only became an effective category during the Second World War. It reconsiders the history of the creation of the Middle East Department in the Colonial Office and demonstrates that the carving of a new regional entity was one the determining features of the project of a "third Empire". It also demonstrate how maps became both technocratic tools for decision makers and vehicles for propaganda and justifications during the post-1918 peace settlements.Less
This chapter sets out to assess the effects of the militarization of the region’s cartography during the first world war. It calls into question the traditional assumption that the “Middle East” only became an effective category during the Second World War. It reconsiders the history of the creation of the Middle East Department in the Colonial Office and demonstrates that the carving of a new regional entity was one the determining features of the project of a "third Empire". It also demonstrate how maps became both technocratic tools for decision makers and vehicles for propaganda and justifications during the post-1918 peace settlements.
Colin S Gray
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199674275
- eISBN:
- 9780191752285
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674275.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 6 concludes the analytical focusing by arguing for the coherence and compatibility of the five perspectives examined in the preceding chapters. This chapter reveals a story arc that is really ...
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Chapter 6 concludes the analytical focusing by arguing for the coherence and compatibility of the five perspectives examined in the preceding chapters. This chapter reveals a story arc that is really a circle, in that it concludes as the book began, by claiming that strategy is a ‘whole house’, and is best represented by Venn geometry. Perspectives of Strategy proceeds cumulatively, adding layer upon layer in exploration of a whole phenomenon of strategy that is a true gestalt. Each chapter in the book offers insight into how and why strategy works, or fails to do so, but argues that it is only the whole story that can make sense. There cannot be, perhaps one should say ought not to be, an intellectual history of strategy, any more than it would be intelligent to propose moral/ethical, cultural, geographical, or technological, histories and theories of strategy. Explanation for the better understanding and competent practice of strategy has to accept as valid the view that accommodates each perspective in this book with its variable relative significance from historical case to historical case.Less
Chapter 6 concludes the analytical focusing by arguing for the coherence and compatibility of the five perspectives examined in the preceding chapters. This chapter reveals a story arc that is really a circle, in that it concludes as the book began, by claiming that strategy is a ‘whole house’, and is best represented by Venn geometry. Perspectives of Strategy proceeds cumulatively, adding layer upon layer in exploration of a whole phenomenon of strategy that is a true gestalt. Each chapter in the book offers insight into how and why strategy works, or fails to do so, but argues that it is only the whole story that can make sense. There cannot be, perhaps one should say ought not to be, an intellectual history of strategy, any more than it would be intelligent to propose moral/ethical, cultural, geographical, or technological, histories and theories of strategy. Explanation for the better understanding and competent practice of strategy has to accept as valid the view that accommodates each perspective in this book with its variable relative significance from historical case to historical case.
Alan Allport
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300170757
- eISBN:
- 9780300213126
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300170757.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter describes the experience of the British Army during the First World War that was so profound, so terrible, that by 1935 it was talked of only with a sigh of never again. Between the ...
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This chapter describes the experience of the British Army during the First World War that was so profound, so terrible, that by 1935 it was talked of only with a sigh of never again. Between the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 until the fighting on the Western Front finally came to an end in November 1918, over 722,000 British soldiers were dead. As a country long accustomed to the trivial sacrifices of distant small wars, Britain had no psychological preparation for a holocaust of this kind. A new narrative of the war began to form, shaped especially by the self-exculpating memoirs of statesmen such as Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. Their consensus was that it was ultimately the British Army's own incompetent commanders, not the Germans, who had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young men of the nation. By the 1930s, Colonel Blimp, a superannuated ignoramus cartoon character created by David Low of the London Evening Standard, had come to stand for everything that had been wrong with the British Army during the First World War; another colonel, Colonel T. E. Lawrence—“Lawrence of Arabia”—stood for everything that had been right about it.Less
This chapter describes the experience of the British Army during the First World War that was so profound, so terrible, that by 1935 it was talked of only with a sigh of never again. Between the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 until the fighting on the Western Front finally came to an end in November 1918, over 722,000 British soldiers were dead. As a country long accustomed to the trivial sacrifices of distant small wars, Britain had no psychological preparation for a holocaust of this kind. A new narrative of the war began to form, shaped especially by the self-exculpating memoirs of statesmen such as Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. Their consensus was that it was ultimately the British Army's own incompetent commanders, not the Germans, who had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young men of the nation. By the 1930s, Colonel Blimp, a superannuated ignoramus cartoon character created by David Low of the London Evening Standard, had come to stand for everything that had been wrong with the British Army during the First World War; another colonel, Colonel T. E. Lawrence—“Lawrence of Arabia”—stood for everything that had been right about it.
Jon Coulston
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter explores Graves’s interest in the late antique world of the general Belisarius, subject of his novel Count Belisarius. It evaluates Graves’s use of literary sources, principally the ...
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This chapter explores Graves’s interest in the late antique world of the general Belisarius, subject of his novel Count Belisarius. It evaluates Graves’s use of literary sources, principally the writings of Procopius, in the light of his other historical novels and poetry. It also relates the military content to the author’s Great War experiences and his contribution to modern Great War reception, his friendship with T. E. Lawrence, his fascination with archery, and the deployment of cavalry in both ancient and early twentieth-century warfare. Presentation in the novel of the ancient partners Justinian and Theodora, and Belisarius and Antonina, are considered in the light of Graves’s convoluted relationship with Laura Riding.Less
This chapter explores Graves’s interest in the late antique world of the general Belisarius, subject of his novel Count Belisarius. It evaluates Graves’s use of literary sources, principally the writings of Procopius, in the light of his other historical novels and poetry. It also relates the military content to the author’s Great War experiences and his contribution to modern Great War reception, his friendship with T. E. Lawrence, his fascination with archery, and the deployment of cavalry in both ancient and early twentieth-century warfare. Presentation in the novel of the ancient partners Justinian and Theodora, and Belisarius and Antonina, are considered in the light of Graves’s convoluted relationship with Laura Riding.
Miles Hollingworth
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190873998
- eISBN:
- 9780190874025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190873998.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Society
And what about Heidegger and Kant and the whole history of Western philosophy? Isn’t the final metaphor for a science that doesn’t think and an imperative that is categorical the vision that we are ...
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And what about Heidegger and Kant and the whole history of Western philosophy? Isn’t the final metaphor for a science that doesn’t think and an imperative that is categorical the vision that we are one day going to be having sex with machines? Isn’t that how we are going to square the circle of the Western mind? For if the circle of it truly enough shows that we are predestinated rather than free, aren’t we going to have to square it by seeking out the ultimate humiliation—Then do that Kantian trick where we turn around and call that humiliation’s endurance our virtue? By going to its final extreme, we will prove our loyalty and our love. In our subjection to a tasteless, faceless, painful sex we will prove our freedom and autonomy of will.Less
And what about Heidegger and Kant and the whole history of Western philosophy? Isn’t the final metaphor for a science that doesn’t think and an imperative that is categorical the vision that we are one day going to be having sex with machines? Isn’t that how we are going to square the circle of the Western mind? For if the circle of it truly enough shows that we are predestinated rather than free, aren’t we going to have to square it by seeking out the ultimate humiliation—Then do that Kantian trick where we turn around and call that humiliation’s endurance our virtue? By going to its final extreme, we will prove our loyalty and our love. In our subjection to a tasteless, faceless, painful sex we will prove our freedom and autonomy of will.