Maritime truces made Britain the Gulf’s arbiter and protector by 1853

Evidence

By 1835 Pax Britanniahad been established over the Gulf with the introduction of maritime truces. Hereafter, the Perpetual Maritime Truce (1853) which established the Trucial Coast (in which regional powers relinquished their right to war) in return for British protection. As a result, Britain was now the ‘protector, mediator, arbiter and guarantor of settlements.’ — Robin Alexander Plant, Discuss the Relationship Between…, 16

Categorization

• CANDY: The Trucial Coast — modern UAE — takes its name from a truce imposed by British gunboats. Great elevator-conversation material about how a country’s name encodes a colonial deal.