The Arabs
Subtitle: a history
By: Eugene Rogan
Edition: 2017 trade paperback edition, [Revised and updated].
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780465094219
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; Arab nationalism; Islam and politics; Imperialism; History
Description: Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, Rogan follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-547) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Cairo to Istanbul; title: The Arab challenge to Ottoman rule; title: The Egyptian empire of Muhammad 'Ali; title: The perils of reform; title: The first wave of colonialism : North Africa; title: Divide and rule : World War I and the postwar settlement; title: The British empire in the Middle East; title: The French empire in the Middle East; title: The Palestine disaster and its consequences; title: The rise of Arab nationalism; title: The decline of Arab nationalism; title: The age of oil; title: The power of Islam; title: After the Cold War; title: The Arabs in the twenty-first century.