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The Middle East : a political history from 395 to the present / Jean-Pierre Filiu ; translated by Andrew Brown
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Filiu, Jean-Pierre, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Milieu des mondes. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- viii, 392 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : color maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity, [2023]
- Language Note:
- Translated from French.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a secular history
- Byzantines, Sassanids, and Arabs (395-661)
- From the Umayyads to the Abbasids (661-945)
- The era of the two caliphates (945-1193)
- Sultans and invaders (1193-1501)
- Ottomans and Safavids (1501-1798)
- Colonial expansion (1798-1912)
- The time of mandates (1914-1949)
- The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict (1949-1990)
- The life and death of the American Middle East (1990-2020)
- Conclusion: the cradle of crisis.
- Notes:
- Originally published in French by Éditions du Seuil, 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1509556001
- 9781509556007
- OCLC:
- 1374244066
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