East View Archive EditionsTM (formerly known as Cambridge Archive Editions) is the first-ever digital presentation of the exceptionally well-known and respected series of British archival reprints formerly published by Cambridge University Press.
In the Near and Middle East E-Book Collection, Archive Editions utilizes Britain’s rich history with Middle Eastern countries via its East India Company trade routes up through the Persian Gulf. The British archives have particularly deep veins of material on boundary formation, tribal relations, state development and political relations.
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Iran Political Developments. The Return of the Shah, 1954-1956
This 7-volume set presents a collection of documents from many British Government files. The set opens with the Shah newly restored to the throne, and closes in the aftermath of his attempted assassination by a member of his Imperial Guard. Edited to provide a chronological development of themes and a description of each document. This period of 1954-1956 is characterized by Iran’s robust responses to the major internal and external issues and crises which had beset the country in the immediate preceding years, in particular the repositioning of the oil industry as a state-sponsored entity which led to a dramatically improved economy, empowering Iran, especially in the context of relations with Britain, as well as western Europe and, to a lesser extent, the USA. (download brochure)
Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831–1979
This thirteen-volume set includes nine thousand pages of facsimile documents and more than twenty maps on the recent history of the Kurdish people, tracing early insurgencies, inter-relations with neighboring tribes and other ethnic groups, while examining the territories pertaining to the Kurdish homeland. All relevant documents which could be sourced from the records of the Government of India at the British Library, Foreign Office, War Office, India Office, Colonial Office and Cabinet at the National Archives relating to the themes of territory and the struggle for it, for the period have been traced and included. (download brochure)
A new Archive Editions collection from East View presented as a database on a new custom platform. Egypt and the Rise of Nationalism: 1840–1927 presents original documentary sources chronicling the development of Egyptian nationalist sensibility during the periods of Ottoman, French, and British rule: from first protests, to sporadic violence, to lobbying, to organized political parties and, ultimately, to Egyptian independence.
Presents documentary evidence of British interests in the North-West Frontier of the British Indian Empire, as this was understood in the mid-nineteenth century. This collection brings together a wide range of official British documents spanning the period 1836–1960, including telegrams, letters, and memoranda, and more.