Parry, Jonathan. Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. 453 Page. ISBN: 9780691181899

Promised Lands provides a narrative of how Britain laid the foundations of her twentieth-century Middle Eastern empire in the first half of the previous century, between the defeat of Napoleonic France in Egypt and the Crimean War. Deeply steeped in the memoirs and letters of the ministers, ambassadors, and consuls directly concerned, Parry presents British policy as somewhat inchoate, free of either liberal or Christian interventionism.