The End Of Empire In The Middle East: Britain's Reliquishment Of Power In Her Last Three Arab Dependencies/Anthony T . Sullivan Introduction and review

This book is based on primary materials available in the British colo‌nial office, the India Office Library, and Durham University's Sudan Archive as well as on such official government publications as the Aden Government Gazette and the Persian Gulf Gazette. In South Arabia, British administrators as a whole had little contact with and less sympathy for the indigenous population and did little to assist the Arab tribes of the protected states of the Hadhramawt to come to terms with modernity. After the British East India Company's capture in 1819 of Ra's al Khaymah the burning of several hundred Arab ships, Britain proceeded to establish its authority over all of the tiny states of the Trucial Coast. " In Balfour-Paul's opinion, British accomplishments in the Gulf were perhaps less impressive than in Sudan but certainly more so than in South Arabia.