The unmaking of the Middle East : a history of Western disorder in Arab lands / [electronic resource]
Salt, Jeremy.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2008.
Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East by chronicling the long and bloody history of Western intervention in Arab lands.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-441) and index.
Introduction -- Pt. 1: "Why do they hate us?" -- Civilisation and its contradictions -- Science and barbarism -- Pt. 2: Sacred trusts -- Collision and partition -- Exit the Sharif -- Small wars in Iraq -- Double colonialism in Palestine -- "Civil war along the Potomac" -- Pt. 3: The American ascendancy -- The "tripartite aggression" -- My enemys special friend -- LBJ's other war -- Disabling Lebanon -- Pt. 4: The Bush wars -- Into the Gulf -- George the son -- The long campaign.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East by chronicling the long and bloody history of Western intervention in Arab lands.
Description based on print version record.
East and West.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
East and West
Arab-Israeli conflict
Persian Gulf War, 1991
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
History & Archaeology
Middle East