
Playing the Game
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- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Claiming a Place: Women and Imperial Politics before the First World War
- 1 'Keeping up the Dignity of the Empire': The Viceregal Tour of the Gulf in 1903
- 2 The Wife of the Political Agent: Emily Overend Lorimer in Bahrain, 1911-12
- 3 Rival Narratives: American Missionaries in the Gulf, 1892-1914
- 4 War Work for the Empire: Western Women in Mesopotamia and the Gulf, 1914-18
- 5 Women and the 'New World Order': Anglo-American Perspectives on Colonialism, 1918-26
- 6 'Women called Wild': Travellers and Orientalists in the Inter-war Years
- 7 The 'Beach Pyjama Incident', 1933: Oil, the Arabian Gulf Air Route and the 'Opening up' of the Coast
- Postscript: Completing the Story
- Bibliography
- Index
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