The unmaking of the Middle East
Subtitle: a history of Western disorder in Arab lands
By: Jeremy Salt.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780520255517
Subjects: East and West; Arab-Israeli conflict; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Iraq War, 2003-; Middle East -- Colonization; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-441) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1: "Why do they hate us?"; title: Civilisation and its contradictions; title: Science and barbarism; title: Pt. 2: Sacred trusts; title: Collision and partition; title: Exit the Sharif; title: Small wars in Iraq; title: Double colonialism in Palestine; title: "Civil war along the Potomac"; title: Pt. 3: The American ascendancy; title: The "tripartite aggression"; title: My enemys special friend; title: LBJ's other war; title: Disabling Lebanon; title: Pt. 4: The Bush wars; title: Into the Gulf; title: George the son; title: The long campaign.