The Shaping of the Modern Middle East - Couverture souple

Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195072820 ISBN 13 : 9780195072822

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the volatile developments of the last three decades, The Shaping of the Modern Middle East sheds light on the climax and sudden end of the cold war, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Arab-Israeli wars, the formation and activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the Persian Gulf War, and the Iranian revolution. Illuminating the region's geography, culture, history, language, and religion, Lewis explores the complex and often confusing issues of Arab nationalism, Islamic fundamentalism, and responses and reactions in the Middle East to centuries of Western influence, revealing the subtlety and sophistication of this dynamic civilization as no other scholar can.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of many books including Race and Slavery in the Middle East, The Arabs in History, and Islam and the West.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195072820
• ISBN 13: 9780195072822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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