A Brief History of the Middle East
For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology, and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred years for the West to catch up and overtake the Middle East. In this fully updated and revised edition, historian...
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For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology, and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred years for the West to catch up and overtake the Middle East. In this fully updated and revised edition, historian Christopher Catherwood brings the account up to the present day and places in context the continuing friction between Israel and Palestine, the aftermath of the Iraq conflict, and the rising threat of Iran.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780762441020 (076244102X)
ASIN: 076244102X
Publish date: April 26th 2011
Publisher: Running Press
Pages no: 420
Edition language: English
Series: Brief History
Concise overview of Middle Eastern history from ancient times to the present day.Useful as a launchpad for wider reading.Irritating style: rejects footnotes in favour of citing sources in the text ("as X reminds us ... ") then overuses the device ("Expert writers such as the scholar R T France estim...
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