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LEADER: 02723cam a22003134a 4500
001 2004001669
003 DLC
005 20080505101227.0
008 040126s2004 couab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004001669
020 $a0813340489 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0813340470 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm54096810
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050 00 $aDS62.4$b.C53 2004
082 00 $a956$222
100 1 $aCleveland, William L.
245 12 $aA history of the modern Middle East /$cWilliam L. Cleveland.
250 $a3rd ed.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bWestview Press,$cc2004.
300 $axix, 588 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 555-578) and index.
505 0 $aThe rise and expansion of Islam -- The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century -- The Ottoman and Safavid Empires : a new imperial synthesis -- Forging a new synthesis : the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849 -- The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the tanzimat -- Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century -- The response of Islamic society -- The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists -- World war I and the end of the Ottoman order -- Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran -- The Arab struggle for independence : Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the interwar era to 1945 -- The Arab struggle for independence : Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the interwar era to 1945 -- The Palestine mandate and the birth of the state of Israel -- Democracy and authoritarianism : Turkey and Iran -- The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the Egyptian base -- The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the radicalization of Arab politics -- Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s -- Changing patterns of war and peace : Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s -- The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq : the regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn -- The Iranian revolution and the resurgence of Islam -- The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era -- Challenges to the existing order : the Palestinian uprising and the Gulf War -- A peace so near, a peace so far : Israeli-Palestinian relations since the Gulf War -- Patterns of continuity and change in the central Middle East since the Gulf War.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xHistory$y1517-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004001669.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0830/2004001669-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0830/2004001669-d.html