Wartime intelligence work gave Orientalists specialized modern regional knowledge

Evidence

It was not easy to resume an academic career after an interval of almost six years doing very different work. I had acquired a close, intense but highly spe­ cialized knowledge of some aspects of the modern situation in the Middle East in the course of my wartime duties, but I had to relearn my profession, both as a teacher and as a researcher. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 77

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar US empire relied on missionary children and oilmen for regional knowledge; The dominant Orientalist vision functioned as intelligence gathering for colonial occupation; Wartime state intelligence work drew directly on academic Orientalists — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 76 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar US empire relied on missionary children and oilmen for regional knowledge; The dominant Orientalist vision functioned as intelligence gathering for colonial occupation; Wartime state intelligence work drew directly on academic Orientalists — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 76 (+4 more)