An updated edition of this landmark history, with brand new and up-to-date material.
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This title follows the historic struggles of the region over the years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question and Islamic resurgence.
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An updated edition of this landmark history, with brand new and up-to-date material.
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This title follows the historic struggles of the region over the years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question and Islamic resurgence.
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Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question and Islamic resurgence.
For this third edition, Economist journalist and Middle East correspondent Nicolas Pelham has written an extensive new chapter examining recent developments throughout the Middle East, including bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the situation in Iran, the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict, relations with the US and recent events in Syria.
A History of the Middle East is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand one of the most crucial and volatile nerve centres of the world, and its prospects for the future.
Critic Reviews
“A brilliantly deft and well-informed guide ... Peter Mansfield compresses the whole tumultuous development of this vast region into 350 coherent, dispassionate and remarkably inclusive pages”
The Times Educational Supplement
About the Author
Peter Mansfield was born in 1928 in India. In 1955 he joined the British Foreign Office and went to Lebanon to study Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies. From 1961 to 1967 he was the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times. He became one of Britain's foremost experts on the Middle East. Peter Mansfield died in 1996.
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