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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    July 2025
    September 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009541725
    9781009541763
    9781009541749
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009541725
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.5kg, 268 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.25kg, 268 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Twentieth Century British History, British History after 1450, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Modern British Histories
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Twentieth Century British History, British History after 1450, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Modern British Histories
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    Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest – the 'great game' – with the Russian Empire. As oil discoveries and increasing trade brought new attention, the expanding telegraph and river shipping industries attracted resourceful men into junior positions in remote outposts. Love, Class and Empire explores the experiences of two of these men and their families. Drawing on a wealth of personal letters and diaries, A. James Hammerton examines the complexities of expatriate life in Iran and Iraq, in particular the impact of rapid social mobility on ordinary Britons and their families in the late imperial era. Uniquely, the study blends histories of empire with histories of marriage and family, closely exploring the nature of expatriate love and sexuality. In the process, Hammerton discloses a tender expatriate love story and offers a moving account of transient life in a corner of the informal empire.

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    Contents
    • Introduction
      pp 1-16
    • Social Mobility, Global Mobility and Marriage in the British Imperial World
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