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Middle East patterns : places, peoples, and politics / Colbert C. Held ; in collaboration with Mildred McDonald Held ; cartography by John V. Cotter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Held, Colbert C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East.
- Middle East Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 646 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Physical and cultural geography
- Tricontinental junction : an introduction
- Middle East preview
- The Middle East : definition
- Regional unity of empires
- Aims and concepts : a glance
- The face of the earth
- Patterns of time : historical-geographical foundations
- Patterns of peoples, cultures, and settlements
- The desert and the sown : land use
- Riches beneath the earth
- Manufacturing and transportation
- The earth and the state : geopolitics
- Syria : Middle East heartland
- Lebanon and Cyprus : a mountain and an island
- Jordan : the land beyond and between
- Israel, Palestine, and the disputed territories
- Iraq : modern Mesopotamia
- Saudi Arabia : development in the desert
- The Gulf and its oil states : an overview
- Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
- Oman and Yemen : the southern fringe
- Egypt : a river and a people
- A view of Egypt
- Turkey : bridgeland in Anatolia between Europe and the Middle East
- Iran : complex republic on the plateau
- Young state, ancient land.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-624) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813341701
- OCLC:
- 58468066
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