The Middle East
Publisher: Scribner
Published: August 7, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780684832807
Subjects: World history; Middle East; History - General History; History: World; Middle East - General; History / General; History
First sentence: At the beginning of the Christian era, the region which we now call the Middle East was disputed, for neither the first nor the last time in the thousands of years of its recorded history, between two mighty imperial powers.