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The Arabs / Peter Mansfield.
- Title
- The Arabs / Peter Mansfield.
- Author
- Mansfield, Peter, 1928-1996
- Publication
- Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1980.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS38.9 .M36 1980 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 576 p. : map; 20 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Arab world
- Alternative Title
- Arab world
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- First published in America under title: The Arab world.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. The Arab past. 1. Who are the Arabs? -- 2. The great Arab explosion -- 3. The long decline -- 4. The west counter-attacks -- 5. Ottoman subjects -- 6. The west invades -- 7. The seeds of Arab nationalism -- 8. The Arab revolt -- 9. The great deception : the west disposes -- 10. Western tutelage and the rise of Arab nationalism -- 11. Disaster in Palestine -- 12. The second Arab revolt -- 13. Disunity, frustration and defeat -- 14. The turn of the tide? -- II. The Arab world today. 15. The Gulf : the Eldorado states -- 16. Oman : the hermit disclosed -- 17. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen : the first Marxist Arab state? -- 18. The Yemen Arab republic : the awakened recluse -- 19. Saudi Arabia : financial superpower -- 20. Syria : the heart of Arabism -- 21. Lebanon : Arab supermarket, ruin or reform? -- 22. Iraq : the dynamic outsider -- 23. Jordan : the stubborn survivor -- 24. Sudan : the loose-limbed giant -- 25. Egypt : the centre of gravity -- 26. Libya : the radical right -- 27. Tunisia : the dogmatic moderate -- 28. Algeria : austere revolutionary -- 29. Morocco : kingdom of the far west -- III. The Arabs today. 30. Through western eyes -- 31. Through Arab eyes.
- OCLC
- 7238997
- SCSB-12298737
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library