The Lion's Share

Porter, Bernard

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“…Additionally, by the end of the war the Middle East 'was a tangle of promises which Britain had made to the Arabs, to the Jews, to France and to herself.' 34…”

Section: The Young Turks and The British Empirementioning

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Yildizeli¹

2018

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As today, Middle East was not just only a geographical region to define its location in the world era for Britain. The 19 th century was the base of the British interests in the Middle East, with the increasing economic resources during the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It is equally clear that one of the significant aspects of British policy towards the Porte was the status of Christian subjects under the Turkish rule in addition to economic and political underpinnings. Subsequent to Crimean War, Britain had developed a strong intimacy with the Ottoman Empire which was based on mutual trust and friendship. Besides, she started to expand the empire by acquiring the Middle Eastern regions at the same time. This study will try to analyse this transform of the British Empire from the guardian to the heir of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. The analysis of the process will be based on the British imperialism towards the Middle East from the 19 th century until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey subsequent to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Basically, the reasons of why the British rule aimed to rule Aden Wharf, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan will be particularly examined in order to prove the main analysis. On the other hand, this research would not simply address the Anglo-Ottoman relations or the British influence over the relations between the Sublime Porte and the Arabs.

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“…Additionally, by the end of the war the Middle East 'was a tangle of promises which Britain had made to the Arabs, to the Jews, to France and to herself.' 34…”

Section: The Young Turks and The British Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

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2018

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“…Planning was already a theme in colonial development by the 1940s. In 1929 and 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Acts had put aside £20 million and £5 million respectively to be spent in the colonies, though only £3 million of the former sum was actually spent (Porter, 1996). But after 1940, planning of colonial economies was taken-up in earnest.…”

Section: Hayek Confronts Colonial Development Planningmentioning

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“…Whilst Hayek was undertaking his work on Gibraltar, the Colonial Development and Welfare Act of 1945 was under preparation. Inspired by Keynes, the Colonial Office discarded its traditional view of the grant of welfare and development funds -that they were counter-productive because they were inflationary -and embraced legislation that would see £120 million distributed throughout the empire on a range of infrastructure and development schemes (Porter, 1996). Planning was, therefore, fully in vogue at the Colonial Office as…”

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Friedrich Hayek's fleeting foray into 1940s colonial development

Grocott¹

2017

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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Herein we examine recommendations made in 1944 by Friedrich Hayek for the Government of Gibraltar, regarding Gibraltar's future economic prospects. In keeping with Hayek's ideas in The Road to Serfdom, he proposed reducing state-led economic planning in Gibraltar alongside proposals to lift restrictions upon the operation of a free market in rents and labour. Hayek's proposals were rejected by both governments in Gibraltar and London because they were not compatible with the economic planning of colonial economies, inspired by Keynes, and provision of welfare systems in the empire inspired by Beveridge, both dominant ideas during the mid-1940s in government circles.

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“…And while the colonial government had increased the subsidy it provided to the library, it was unlikely to be able to provide very much more, even if asked, which does not appear to be the case. The inter‐war years have been described as exhibiting, in terms of colonial administration, “an air of stagnation” (Porter, 2004, p. 270). Although it was generally conceded that as trustees or custodians of subject peoples it was necessary that colonial governments around the world work towards the moral and educational progress of those same people, this was balanced by a notion that the colonies should be economically self‐sufficient, especially when it came to drawing on funds from the metropole (Porter, 2004, pp.…”

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The social role of the Raffles Library, Singapore, in the inter‐war years

Luyt

2012

Journal of Documentation

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to examine the inter‐war history of the Raffles Library in Singapore with the aim of understanding what the management of the library believed its role should be as well as the role others in that society considered that it should fulfill.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on historical research using archival sources.FindingsTo a great extent the management of the library narrowly construed the institution's mission in terms of appealing to that class of persons likely to become paying members – that is, the European elite and its high‐level local collaborators. Financial constraints, relations between the library and museum as well as prevalent negative attitudes regarding class and race in colonial society are likely reasons for the lack of sustained attention to non‐European populations.Originality/valueThe library history of much of Asia remains relatively unexplored, especially from a viewpoint that stresses the importance of social context to library structure and operation.

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The Lion's Share

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Friedrich Hayek's fleeting foray into 1940s colonial development

The social role of the Raffles Library, Singapore, in the inter‐war years

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