Jacob Coleman Hurewitz (November 11, 1914 – May 16, 2008) was an American political scientist
9-659: Violet Line may refer to: Violet Line (1914) , a boundary between the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire in Arabia Violet line piranha , a species of fish Violet Line (Delhi Metro) , a line of the rapid transit system in Delhi, India See also [ edit ] Blue Line (disambiguation) Purple Line (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
18-638: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Violet Line (1914) British-Ottoman boundary line [REDACTED] Map showing the Violet Line. The Violet Line was a boundary line agreed between the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire in March 1914. It started from the termination of
27-886: The Blue Line agreed to at the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 and extended to the border between the Ottoman Yemen Vilayet and the British Aden Protectorates . Together with the Blue Line, the Violet Line effectively divided the Arabian peninsula in two. This boundary between the Ottoman and British empires is what eventually led to the border between North Yemen and South Yemen . References [ edit ] ^ Richard Schofield (31 March 1999), Negotiating
36-700: The Middle East, 1906–1914" in Justin Q. Olmsted Britain in the Islamic World Imperial and Post-Imperial Connections London: Palgrave, 2019, 89–105. Wilkinson, John C. Arabia’s Frontiers: The Story of Britain’s Boundary Drawing in the Desert , London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1991, 100–108. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violet_Line_(1914)&oldid=1233708146 " Categories : Borders of Yemen 1914 in
45-697: The Near East section of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II , then worked successively at the State Department , as a political adviser on Palestine to the President’s cabinet and for the United Nations secretariat. Professor Hurewitz began studying Middle Eastern politics in 1950, before the field had emerged as an academic discipline. From 1970 until 1984, Professor Hurewitz
54-636: The Ottoman Empire Ottoman period in Yemen Ottoman Empire–United Kingdom relations Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Hurewitz, J. C. Hurewitz graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1936, then did his graduate work at Columbia, making what was then an unusual decision to concentrate on the Middle East. He worked for
63-1464: The Saudi-Yemeni international boundary , Al-Bab , retrieved 30 March 2020 ^ Harry Brown (October 1994), The Iraq-Kuwait boundary dispute: historical background and the UN decisions of 1992 and 1993 , IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin , retrieved 1 April 2020 Further reading [ edit ] Anscombe, Frederick F. The Ottoman Gulf: the creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Kelly, J. B. Eastern Arabian Frontiers New York: Frederick A Praeger, 1964. Kelly, J. B. Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Eastern Arabia International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs) 34.4 (1958): 16–24. Hurewitz, J. C. , ed. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics: A Documentary Record , 2nd edn. Vol. 1: European Expansion, 1535–1914. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975, pp. 567–570. Schofield, Richard. Kuwait and Iraq: Historical and Territorial Disputes . London: Chatham House, 1991. Slot, B. J. Mubarak al-Sabah: Founder of Modern Kuwait 1896-1915 . Arabian Publishing Ltd, 2005. Tallon, James N. "Allies and Adversaries: Anglo-Ottoman Boundary Negotiation in
72-419: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Violet Line . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violet_Line&oldid=1010934193 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
81-584: Was director of the Columbia university's Middle East Institute, when he retired. In 1972, Hurewitz established the Columbia University Seminar on the Middle East, which he continued to chair until he was nearly 90. His publications influenced many other historians. For example, Wm. Roger Louis wrote in his book "The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951" (Clarendon, 1984) that "my views on Arab nationalism and Zionism, and on
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