Tancred Bradshaw received his PhD in 2004 from SOAS, University of London and has since taught at Birkbeck College, London City University and Florida State University. He currently works as an independent historian and regional consultant. He has previously published The Glubb Reports (2015) and Britain and Jordan (I.B.Tauris, 2012), as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Benign Neglect: the Government of India and the Trucial States, c. 1800-1947
Chapter 2: The Neo-Raj: British Policy in the Trucial States during the 1950s
Chapter 3: The Conservative Government and the Trucial States, 1960-1964: the Consolidation of British Influence
Chapter 4: Responsibility Without Power: The Vicissitudes of British policy in the Trucial States, 1964-1967
Chapter 5: The Withdrawal from the Gulf: All Politics and No Strategy
Chapter 6: Epilogue
Conclusion
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