Lawrence Of Arabia - The Battle For The Arab World

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  • Richard Voeltz Cameron University

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https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.32.2.98-99

Abstract

As the United States attempts to install a new government in present-day Iraq, this PBS documentary about T.E. Lawrence and Arab nationalism raises some eerie echoes. Winston Churchill called Lawrence "one of history's greatest men." Lawrence himself certainly tried to live up to that description with his pretentious Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), while the American journalist Lowell Thomas created "Lawrence of Arabia," that dashing and romantic figure of the desert. (In 1920s America Arabs were viewed by the general public as foreign and exotic, not as today when the image is one of the fanatical terrorist.)

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Published

2007-09-01

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Voeltz, Richard. 2007. “Lawrence Of Arabia - The Battle For The Arab World”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 32 (2):98-99. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.32.2.98-99.

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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2007)

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Copyright (c) 2007 Richard A. Voeltz

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