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A history of the modern Middle East : rulers, rebels, and rogues / Betty S. Anderson.

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  • ISBN: 9780804783248 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0804783241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xx, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-500) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue : Islam and the Prophet's successors -- Birth of empires : the Ottoman and Safavid Empires through the 18th century -- Reform and rebellion : the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Qajar Iran in the 19th century -- Social transformations : workers and nationalists in Egypt, Mount Lebanon, and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century -- The Great War : Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire from revolution to World War I -- State formation and colonial control : Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan, and Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and 1930s -- Rebels and rogues : Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Palestine, and Israel -- Military coups : politics and violence : Iran, Turkey, and the Arab states, 1952-1980 -- Cold war battles : the Suez Crisis, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and the Lebanese civil war -- Rulers for life : state construction, consolidation, and collapse -- Upheaval : Islamism, invasion, and rebellion from the 1990s into the 21st century -- Epilogue : revolution, reaction, and civil war.
Subject:
Middle East > History > 1517- > Textbooks.
Middle East > Politics and government > Textbooks.
Politics and government.
Middle East.
Machtwechsel.
Politik.
Mittlerer Osten.
Naher Osten.
Genre:
History.
Textbooks.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at North Carolina Community Colleges Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Durham Technical Community College.

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Durham Tech Main Campus Library DS 62.4 .A63 2016 (Text) 39024000795463 General Collection Available -