TY - GEN AU - Satia,Priya TI - Spies in Arabia: the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain's covert empire in the Middle East PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford [U.K.] PB - Oxford University Press KW - Great Britain KW - Middle East KW - Secret service KW - Foreign relations KW - Espionage KW - World War, 1914-1918 N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-441) and index; Introduction -- War and hope. The foundations of covert empire ; The cultural world of the Edwardian agent ; The failure of empiricism and how the agents addressed it ; Cunning in war ; Imperial expiation -- Peace and terror. Official conspiracy theories and the wagers of genius ; Air control ; Covert empire ; Seeing like a democracy -- Conclusion UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb08808 ER -