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Article: Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958.
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- March 22, 1998
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Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958. By Paul W. T. Kingston. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 191. $54.95.)
This book is highly recommended not only to those who are interested in Britain and the Middle East, but to those concerned about the developing world, particularly the high hopes and deep disappointments associated with US. modernizers worldwide from the launching of the Marshall Plan in Europe and President Truman's Point Four Program to the disappointments and devastations in Vietnam. This well researched and argued book is the fourth in Cambridge Middle East Studies, a very promising new series ...