Savenkov V. Great Britain and the building of the Suez Canal

Object: Great Britain's foreign policy concerning the Near and Middle East; the aims: to study the process of the policy course for-mation and pursue as for the construction of the Suez Canal (in 1854-1869); methods: generalization, logical and historical analysis, content-analysis, statistical method, problem-chronological method, structural-comparative method, system-analytical method; the new approach lies in well founded periodization of the main steps of Great Britain's politics concerning the construction of the Suez Ca-nal; traced the development of eastern communications of Great Britain and main reasons of arising of the "Suez problem"; showed the "Suez problem's" place in the system of British imperial think-ing; studied the struggle of opinions and views in questions of the necessity of the construction of the Suez Canal; results: the main ideas and generalizations are introduced into educational process of pedagogical university; the field is the World History