Background of the Middle East.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Delimitation of the Middle East / Ernest Jackh; title: Statistical highlights / Harry W. Hazard; title: The geostrategic uniqueness of the Middle East / Ernest Jackh; title: Center of creation, radiation, and mediation / William S. Haas; title: Hebrew civilization / Salo W. Baron; title: Influence of Hellenism on the Middle East / André Michalopoulos; title: Rome and western Christianity ; Oriental Christianity ; Byzantium and eastern Christianity / Edgar Alexander; title: The birthplace of Islamic civilization / Arthur Jeffery; title: The Arab caliphate : its rise and decline / Philip K. Hitti; title: Rise of the Turkish empire / Zeki Validi Togan; title: European imperialism in the Middle East / Lewis V. Thomas; title: Russian messianism and the Middle East / Edgar Alexander; title: Nationalism / Hans Kohn; title: Social and economic problems / George Hakim; title: Petroleum; title: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East / Harry N. Howard; title: The importance of the Mediterranean / William Reitzel; title: The law of the Near and Middle East / Joseph Schacht; title: The arts : reaction against Hellenism / Maurice S. Dimand; title: American archaeology in the Near and Middle East / Ann Perkins.