Elizabeth Monroe (historian)

Elizabeth Monroe CMG (16 January 1905 – 10 March 1986) was an English historian of South-west Asia.[1][2]

Monroe was appointed Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George in the 1973 New Year Honours for "services to Middle East studies".[3]

Works

  • (with A. H. M. Jones) A History of Abyssinia (1935)
  • The Mediterranean in Politics (1938)
  • "British Interests in the Middle East" (1948)[4]
  • Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956 (1963)
  • Philby of Arabia (1973)

References

  1. ^ 'Miss Elizabeth Monroe: Historian of the Middle East', The Times, 11 March 1986
  2. ^ E. C. Hodgkin. "Elizabeth Monroe". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47271. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 45860". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1972. p. 3.
  4. ^ Monroe, Elizabeth (1948). "British Interests in the Middle East". Middle East Journal. 2 (2): 129–146. ISSN 0026-3141. JSTOR 4321964.


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