Elizabeth Monroe
Journalist and scholar of the Middle East
About Elizabeth Monroe
Lived 1905 – 1986 (aged 81). Elizabeth Monroe was a British orientalist, journalist and historian.
Elizabeth Monroe (16 January 1905 – 10 March 1986) was an English historian of South-west Asia.
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".
Works (with A. H. M. Jones) A History of Abyssinia (1935) The Mediterranean in Politics (1938) "British Interests in the Middle East" (1948) Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956 (1963) Philby of Arabia (1973)
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Who was Elizabeth Monroe?
journalist and scholar of the Middle East
When was Elizabeth Monroe born?
Elizabeth Monroe was born on 17 January 1905.
When did Elizabeth Monroe die?
Elizabeth Monroe died on 17 January 1986.
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Elizabeth Monroe was an orientalist, journalist and historian.
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Elizabeth Monroe was British.
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