The Arabs: A History
Named Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Economist and the Atlantic

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated and expanded edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region to offer a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world.

"Deeply erudite and distinctly humane."-Atlantic

"An outstanding, gripping and exuberant narrative . . . that explains much of what we need to know about the world today."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times
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The Arabs: A History
Named Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Economist and the Atlantic

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated and expanded edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region to offer a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world.

"Deeply erudite and distinctly humane."-Atlantic

"An outstanding, gripping and exuberant narrative . . . that explains much of what we need to know about the world today."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times
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The Arabs: A History

The Arabs: A History

by Eugene Rogan
The Arabs: A History

The Arabs: A History

by Eugene Rogan

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Named Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Economist and the Atlantic

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated and expanded edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region to offer a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world.

"Deeply erudite and distinctly humane."-Atlantic

"An outstanding, gripping and exuberant narrative . . . that explains much of what we need to know about the world today."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465032488
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 04/10/2012
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 608
File size: 51 MB
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Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Eugene Rogan is the Director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. The author of Basic's own The Arabs and of the international bestseller The Fall of the Ottomans, Rogan received the Albert Hourani Prize and a book of the year award from the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He lives in Oxford, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 From Cairo to Istanbul 13

Chapter 2 The Arab Challenge to Ottoman Rule 39

Chapter 3 The Egyptian Empire of Muhammad 'Ali 61

Chapter 4 The Perils of Reform 85

Chapter 5 The First Wave of Colonialism: North Africa 109

Chapter 6 Divide and Rule: World War I and the Postwar Settlement 149

Chapter 7 The British Empire in the Middle East 175

Chapter 8 The French Empire in the Middle East 211

Chapter 9 The Palestine Disaster and Its Consequences 247

Chapter 10 The Rise of Arab Nationalism 277

Chapter 11 The Decline of Arab Nationalism 319

Chapter 12 The Age of Oil 355

Chapter 13 The Power of Islam 397

Chapter 14 After the Cold War 439

Epilogue 483

Postscript 499

Acknowledgments 505

Permissions 507

Notes 509

Index 539

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