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Dr James Onley

Publications

Books

The Ruling Shaikhs of Eastern Arabia: Tribal Alliances and the Politics of Protection, 1700s–1971, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Onley JA (eds) Britain and the Gulf, 1820s–1970s, London, Palgrave, 2013.

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Gulf, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. Full Article Publisher Website

Chapters

Indian Communities in the Gulf, c.1500–1947 (presently writing), in The Persian Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History, New York / London: Columbia University Press / Hurst, 2013

Transnational Merchants in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Gulf, in Alshareskh A (eds) The Gulf Family: Modernity and Kinship Policies, London: Saqi Books, 2007, 37-56 Full Article Publisher Website

Transnational Merchants in the Nineteenth Century Gulf: The Case of the Safar Family, in Al-Rasheed M (eds) Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf, London: Routledge, 2005, 59-89 Full Article Publisher Website

The Politics of Protection in the Gulf: The Arab Rulers and the British Resident in the Nineteenth Century, in Pridham B,Smart J (eds) New Arabian Studies, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004, 30-92 Full Article Publisher Website

Journal articles

Curzon's Tour of the Persian Gulf, 1903 (presently writing), , 2013

La politique de protection : les gouvernants du Golfe et la Pax Britannica au XIXe siècle [The Politics of Protection: The Gulf Rulers and the Pax Britannica in the Nineteenth Century], Maghreb–Machrek, 2010 Full Article Publisher Website

Imperial History and Political Correctness, British Scholar, vol. 2, no. 2, 2010, 339-347 Full Article Publisher Website

Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820–1971: The Politics of Protection, CIRS Occasional Paper (SFS, Georgetown University), vol. 4, 2009, 1-44 Full Article Publisher Website

The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa, Asian Affairs, vol. 40, no. 1, 2009, 44-62 Full Article Publisher Website

with S Khalaf, Shaikhly Authority in the Pre-Oil Gulf: An Historical-Anthropological Study, History and Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 3, 2006, 189-208 Full Article Publisher Website DOI

L'empire britannique informel dans le Golfe (1820-1971) [Britain's Informal Empire in the Gulf, 1820-1971], Maghreb–Machrek, vol. 187, 2006, 101-113 Full Article Publisher Website

Britain’s Informal Empire in the Gulf, 1820–1971, Journal of Social Affairs, vol. 22, no. 87, 2005, 29-45 Full Article Publisher Website

Britain's Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, 130-137 Full Article Publisher Website

The Politics of Protection in the Gulf: The Arab Rulers and the British Resident in the Nineteenth Century, New Arabian Studies, vol. 6, 2004, 30-92 Full Article Publisher Website