American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region [Hardcover]

This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.Toll-Gates of Empire: Britain, the United States, and the Persian Gulf Region before 1951 Anti-Colonialism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and Cold War: Anglo-American Relations in the Persian Gulf Region, 1950-1956 A Delicate Structure: Consolidation and Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region, 1957-1960 What a World It Is!: Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Persian Gulf Region, 1961-1963 For God's Sake Act Like Britain!: Johnson, Wilson, and Britain's Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf Region, 1964-1968 The Twilight of the Pax Brittanica: The United States and Britain's Departure from the Persian Gulf, 1968-1972

Fain's book is . . . a welcome addition to the literature. His work is in many ways an impressive achievement, particularly in the ways that the author demonstrates control of an enormous body of primary source material as well as familiarity with most, if not all, of the secondary scholarship . . . Fain has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American relations in the Persian Gulf, and his work will probably be mandatory reading for all scholars in this field. - The American Historical Review In many ways an impressive book, being erudite, well written, and extensively researched . . . W. Taylor Fain has produced a significant book that will add to the growing literature on Anglo-American relations and the end of empire in the Persian Gulf. - International Journal of Middle East Studies Encompassing two turbulent decades of Anglo-American cooperation and rivalry in the Persian Gulf region, W. Taylor Fain's well researched and briskly paced monograph ably fills a gap in the current historiography on western policy towards the Middle Ealãd