The Suez Canal: Its Past, Present, And Future
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few waterways have shaped the destiny of nations as profoundly as the Suez Canal — that slender ribbon of water connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea — and Lt.-Col. Sir Arnold T. Wilson's authoritative study stands as one of the most comprehensive accounts of its remarkable story. A senior British colonial administrator and Member of Parliament, Wilson brings both scholarly rigour and firsthand political insight to bear as he chronicles the canal's origins under Ferdinand de Lesseps, its pivotal role in the imperial ambitions of Britain, France, and Egypt, and the fierce diplomatic contests that surrounded its management and control throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written in 1933 at a moment of intensifying global tension, The Suez Canal: Its Past, Present, and Future carries the weight of prescience, presenting a meticulous analysis of the waterway's strategic, economic, and geopolitical significance that would prove chillingly relevant just decades later during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Wilson's prose is measured and authoritative, drawing on a wealth of primary sources, parliamentary debates, and diplomatic correspondence to construct an argument about the canal's indispensability to world trade and Western power. Published by Oxford University Press under the Humphrey Milford imprint, this work remains an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to understand one of the great infrastructural and political flashpoints of the modern era — and the question it leaves unanswered about sovereignty and control still resonates today.
Author: Arnold T. Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1933, Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford
Genre: Maritime history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few waterways have shaped the destiny of nations as profoundly as the Suez Canal — that slender ribbon of water connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea — and Lt.-Col. Sir Arnold T. Wilson's authoritative study stands as one of the most comprehensive accounts of its remarkable story. A senior British colonial administrator and Member of Parliament, Wilson brings both scholarly rigour and firsthand political insight to bear as he chronicles the canal's origins under Ferdinand de Lesseps, its pivotal role in the imperial ambitions of Britain, France, and Egypt, and the fierce diplomatic contests that surrounded its management and control throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written in 1933 at a moment of intensifying global tension, The Suez Canal: Its Past, Present, and Future carries the weight of prescience, presenting a meticulous analysis of the waterway's strategic, economic, and geopolitical significance that would prove chillingly relevant just decades later during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Wilson's prose is measured and authoritative, drawing on a wealth of primary sources, parliamentary debates, and diplomatic correspondence to construct an argument about the canal's indispensability to world trade and Western power. Published by Oxford University Press under the Humphrey Milford imprint, this work remains an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to understand one of the great infrastructural and political flashpoints of the modern era — and the question it leaves unanswered about sovereignty and control still resonates today.