Allenby: Making the Modern Middle East

by C. Brad Faught

Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these two roles Allenby's eight years in the Middle East were of great impact, and in probing his life an especially revealing window can be found through which to observe closely and understand more fully the history that has resulted in the terminal roil afflicting the Middle East and international affairs today.

In this biography Brad Faught explores the events and actions of Allenby's life, examining his thinking on both the British Empire and the post-World War I international order. Faught brings clarity to Allenby's decisive impact on British imperial policy in the making of the modern Middle East, and thereby on the long arc of the region's continuing and controversial place in world affairs.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 25, 2020

About the author

Dr. Brad Faught is Professor of History at Tyndale University College in Toronto, Ontario. He has received a Masters from Oxford and his Ph.D in History from the University of Toronto. As well, he has authored five books, including: The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times (Penn State University Press, 2003) and The New A-Z of Empire: A Concise Handbook of British Imperial History (I.B. Tauris, 2011). He specializes in nineteenth century British imperial, religious and political history. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto.