Mid-East
Subtitle: world-center, yesterday, today, and tomorrow
By: planned and edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen ; prepared with the collaboration of Ernest Jackh.
Contributors: Anshen, Ruth Nanda.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Science of culture series ;; v. 7
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Middle East.
Description: Survey of various aspects of the Middle East problem by eighteen contributors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: West emerging from East / Ruth Nanda Anshen; title: Ancient Near East : cradle of history / E.A. Speiser; title: Judaeo-Christian heritage / Jack Finegan; title: World-center of Islam / Edwin E. Calverley; title: The desert and the land / Carleton S. Coon; title: Mid-land, mid-sea, mid-air / Ernest Jackh; title: World-center of oil / Harold B. Hoskins; title: Political institutions / George Lenczowski; title: Economic and social conditions / Charles Issawi; title: Woman / Nabia Abbott; title: Education / Taha Hussein; title: From religious to national law / Majid Khadduri; title: Language / Louis Massingnon; title: Art / Mehmet Aga-Oglu; title: Science / George Sarton; title: Nationalism and imperialism / Hans Kohn; title: Communism and Islam / Bernard Lewis; title: The example of Turkey / Ernest Jackh; title: The phenomenon of Israel / Samuel Hugo Bergman; title: West returning to East / Ruth Nanda Anshen.