Education, Culture and the British Position in the Arab Gulf: Establishing the British Council in Kuwait, 1952-1955

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25940082%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000007" target="_blank" >RIV/25940082:_____/22:N0000007 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/brw.2022.0381?journalCode=brw" target="_blank" >https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/brw.2022.0381?journalCode=brw</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2022.0381" target="_blank" >10.3366/brw.2022.0381</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Education, Culture and the British Position in the Arab Gulf: Establishing the British Council in Kuwait, 1952-1955
Original language description
Connections between Great Britain and the countries of the Arabian Gulf during the era of the Cold War and decolonisation have been the subject of close examination by historians in recent years. However, no historian has addressed with any profundity the cultural dimension of Britain's dealings with the Gulf states. The intent of this article is to confront this question and to show that cultural change in the Arabian Gulf was a major preoccupation of the UK government, particularly when it was associated with the expansion of education then unfolding across the region, most intensely in Kuwait. There was special anxiety that Arab Nationalism and anti-Western sentiment were penetrating local societies and thus undermining an already precarious British influence in the region. The British Council was widely championed as the best instrument at Britain's disposal to counter this threat. It was envisaged that the Council would allow increased cultural contact between Arabs and Britons, offer an alternative vision of Britain to Gulf residents and provides an additional channel through which Britain could influence Gulf governments.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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