Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East 9781429913720

Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East 1780270615, 9781780270616

At the end of the First World War Britain and to a much lesser extent France created the modern Middle East. The possess

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Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923 9780674039346

Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the

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Superpower Intervention in the Middle East (Routledge Revivals) 9781135046835

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Houses built on sand: Violence, sectarianism and revolution in the Middle East 9781526126474

This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues tha

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Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace 9780292763203

Finding "streams in the desert" has never been more urgent for the peoples of the Middle East. Rapid populatio

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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East 9780520382589

This book is an intellectual and social history of Salafism that moves beyond a focus on specific organizations or a com

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The Middle East in the Twentieth Century 0275968936, 9780275968939

The geopolitical history of the Middle East in the twentieth century, which falls into three relatively distinct phases,

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Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East 9780300262438

The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East

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The Middle East on the eve of modernity: Aleppo in the eighteenth century 9780231065955, 9780231065948, 9780231511476

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Suppressing Illicit Opium Production: Successful Intervention in Asia and the Middle East 9781350988309, 9780857727534

Conventional analysis of the illicit opium market suggests that source country interventions have at best achieved minim

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