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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Britain and the World

ISSN

2043-8567

e-ISSN

2043-8575

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

47-65

Kód UT WoS článku

000763575500002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85128474215