Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian - Couverture rigide

Lewis, Bernard; Churchill, Buntzie Ellis

 
9780297867029: Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0297867024 ISBN 13 : 9780297867029
Editeur : W&N, 2012

Synopsis

The memoirs of the greatest living historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis.

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À propos de l?auteur

Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University, and the author of two bestsellers, CRISIS OF ISLAM and WHAT WENT WRONG? A winner of the George Polk award among many other distinctions, he is internationally recognised as the greatest historian of the Middle East.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics of the Middle East found themselves wondering why there was such rage brewing in the region. Many of them turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation. The world's pre-eminent historian of the Middle East, Lewis was among the first to identify the phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism.

In this exceptional memoir, he looks back over his long career - taking us from his discovery of the Crusades as a young boy in London and his service in British intelligence during the Second World War through to the Iraq war, the crisis with Iran, and the great upheavals of the Arab Spring.

Over the course of his distinguished career, he has at times been a player in political events as well as a scholar. He has advised monarchs, presidents, prime ministers and dissidents in the Middle East and elsewhere. Now 95 and still sharper than most college students, he writes with barbed wit about the people he has known and events he has witnessed and participated in. No subject is more fraught in the Middle East than history - and so Bernard Lewis has found himself unexpectedly part of the story that he tells in this extraordinary memoir of a life that spans the 20th century, and has already had a great impact on the 21st.

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Éditeur
W&N
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0297867024
ISBN 13 
9780297867029
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780670023530: Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0670023531 ISBN 13 :  9780670023530
Editeur : Viking Adult, 2012
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