The Arabs : a history /
Rogan, Eugene,
The Arabs : a history / [print] Eugene Rogan. - revisedition. and updatedition. - New York, New York : Basic Books, (c)2017. - v, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, maps ; 23 cm
From Cairo to Istanbul -- The Arab challenge to Ottoman rule -- The Egyptian empire of Muhammad 'Ali -- The perils of reform -- The first wave of colonialism: North Africa -- Divide and rule: World War I and the postwar settlement -- The British empire in the Middle East -- The French empire in the Middle East -- The Palestine disaster and its consequences -- The rise of Arab nationalism -- The decline of Arab nationalism -- The age of oil -- The power of Islam -- After the Cold War -- The Arabs in the twenty-first century.
"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."
9780465094219 9780465025046
Arab nationalism.
Petroleum industry and trade--Arab countries.
Islam and politics--Arab countries.
Imperialism.
Saudi Arabia History Iran History North Africa History
History.
DS37.R721.A733 2017 DS37
The Arabs : a history / [print] Eugene Rogan. - revisedition. and updatedition. - New York, New York : Basic Books, (c)2017. - v, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, maps ; 23 cm
From Cairo to Istanbul -- The Arab challenge to Ottoman rule -- The Egyptian empire of Muhammad 'Ali -- The perils of reform -- The first wave of colonialism: North Africa -- Divide and rule: World War I and the postwar settlement -- The British empire in the Middle East -- The French empire in the Middle East -- The Palestine disaster and its consequences -- The rise of Arab nationalism -- The decline of Arab nationalism -- The age of oil -- The power of Islam -- After the Cold War -- The Arabs in the twenty-first century.
"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."
9780465094219 9780465025046
Arab nationalism.
Petroleum industry and trade--Arab countries.
Islam and politics--Arab countries.
Imperialism.
Saudi Arabia History Iran History North Africa History
History.
DS37.R721.A733 2017 DS37