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Record W4414733700 · doi:10.1017/9783959940832.002

The British Withdrawal from South Arabia

2020· other· en· W4414733700 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John T. Ducker

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocioeconomic Development in MENA
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProtectorateCeylonIndependence (probability theory)Port (circuit theory)Government (linguistics)CONQUESTForeign policy

Abstract

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Since the 19 th century, Britain had been in the process of handing over a large number of former colonies and dependencies to locally responsible authorities, commencing with Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In 1947 India became independent as the two states of India and Pakistan and the following year Burma and Ceylon became independent. There followed many other countries in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. Thus, the pattern had been set over a long period. Aden Colony and Protectorate were in fact among the last territories to become independent. The policy and practice had been to seek to create responsible governments in advance of independence and educate and train local people to perform the duties of government. The obvious analogy to the Aden case is Malaya and Singapore where as in Aden, a federation of the Malayan sultanates was created in 1957, two years before the Federation of South Arabia: Singapore joined that federation too, but went its own way soon after due to factors which were also present in Aden Colony – in particular, as a major port and regional entrepot, integration with and the impact of the world-wide economy which was more important to their economies and interests than their hinterland. Clearly there were also factors influencing events in Aden which had little to do with this typical progression towards self-government but everything to do with Britain's relationship with the Arab world generally and events taking place in it. For a while – perhaps until the late 1950s – Aden seemed almost insulated against events in Egypt, Palestine, Israel and northern Arabia. However, as we know, the radio and transistor changed all that. Pondering the matter soon after the Suez events of 1956, Governor Sir William Luce concluded that British policy in regard to Aden required amendment. In early 1958 he wrote four letters in three days, one to the Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox- Boyd and three to his Under Secretary, Gorell Barnes, which even incorporated comments on strategic and military matters considered by some to be ultra vires Luce's terms of reference. The Air Officer Commanding in Aden, Air Vice Marshall Maurice Heath, supported Luce's general thesis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.217
Threshold uncertainty score0.431

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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