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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: West emerging from East / Ruth Nanda Anshen; value: Ancient Near East : cradle of history / E.A. Speiser; value: Judaeo-Christian heritage / Jack Finegan; value: World-center of Islam / Edwin E. Calverley; value: The desert and the land / Carleton S. Coon; value: Mid-land, mid-sea, mid-air / Ernest Jackh; value: World-center of oil / Harold B. Hoskins; value: Political institutions / George Lenczowski; value: Economic and social conditions / Charles Issawi; value: Woman / Nabia Abbott; value: Education / Taha Hussein; value: From religious to national law / Majid Khadduri; value: Language / Louis Massingnon; value: Art / Mehmet Aga-Oglu; value: Science / George Sarton; value: Nationalism and imperialism / Hans Kohn; value: Communism and Islam / Bernard Lewis; value: The example of Turkey / Ernest Jackh; value: The phenomenon of Israel / Samuel Hugo Bergman; value: West returning to East / Ruth Nanda Anshen.