Aug. 19, 2009

W. Taylor Fain’s new book, American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in July.  The volume is a critical analysis of Anglo-American relations in the Persian Gulf and Arabia during the period of British retrenchment and withdrawal from the area.  In researching the book, Professor Fain worked in archives throughout the United States and Britain. “In many ways,” says Fain, “the book tries to explain the origins of the United States’ current embroilment in the Gulf and Iraq.” It examines both the individual challenges to U.S. and British interests in the Gulf area and the regional context from which those challenges emerged.  It then places these events into the larger picture of Washington’s and London’s Cold war and late imperial policies.

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