The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 : Arab nationalism, the United States, and postwar imperialism / by Wm. Roger Louis.

Includes index.

American Historical Association George Louis Beer Prize, 1984.

Pt. 1. Introduction -- part 2. The northern tier : Iran, Turkey, and Greece, 1945-1947 -- part 3. British defence of the Middle East. Prelude : turning points and controversies -- The Arab League -- Independence in Syria and Lebanon : the significance of the crisis of 1945 -- Saudi Arabia : the question of oil and the accommodation of the United States -- Cyprus : self-determination versus strategic security in the eastern Mediterranean -- Egypt : British 'evacuation and the 'unity of the Nile Valley' -- The Italian colonies and British strategic rights in Cyrenaica -- Iraq : 'the vital Imperial connection' and questions of Iraqi nationalism -- Transjordan and 'Mr. Bevin's little king' -- part 4. Palestine. Prelude : Ernest Bevin and the legacy of the Balfour Declaration -- The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry -- The evolution of American policy and the quest for a binational state -- From Yom Kippur 1946 to British atonement in the United Nations 1947 -- The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine and the British decision to evacuate -- The United States and the United Nations vote of the 29th of November 1947 -- The winter of 1947-1948 : towards partition or trusteeship? -- The United States and the end of British rule in Palestine -- The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 : political implications -- part 5. The Middle East, 1949-1951. Prelude : from Deir Yassin in 1948 to Egyptian abrogation in 1951 -- The future of the Middle Eastern States : questions of economic 'viability' and political stability -- The Persian oil crisis -- Catastrophe foreshadowed : controversy with Egypt over the canal zone and Sudan -- The Middle East and the fall of the Labour government in 1951 : the end of an era.