Research Catalog

Title

An atlas of Middle Eastern affairs / Text by Norman J.G. Pounds ; maps by Robert C. Kingsbury.

Author

Pounds, Norman John Greville

Publication

New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1963.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kingsbury, Robert C.

Description

1 atlas (vi, 117 pages) : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"In the Middle East, perhaps more than anywhere else, politics depends on geography. In the past, the Middle East's fluid natural boundaries, stretching from the low-lying desert plain into three continents, permitted unparalleled expansion of its native empires, and its importance as a crossroads between Africa, Europe, and the Far East increased in each century. Today, there are added factors of significance--primarily, a disproportionate and fabulous wealth in oil and the strategic value of Middle Eastern states, located directly below Soviet territory, but connected to the West through their commerce and, to some extent their past politics and present military alliances. Here is an atlas that provides a precise and cogent summary--in 58 maps and accompanying text--of the basic geographic, national, and cultural factors that distinguish this region today. The authors provide maps and commentary first on the Middle East as a whole--its climate, physical geography, agriculture, political divisions, economics, languages, and religions-- and on significant features ranging from the placement of oil pipelines and refineries to the sources and irrigation basin of the Nile River. They also survey the most important political and religious developments of the past: the expansion and decline of the Ottoman Empire; the spread of the religion of Islam; and imperial colonies, concession, and protectorates from Alexander to World War II. The second half of the atlas contains maps and text on the historical background, geography, economics, and current politics of every country of the Middle East."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Praeger series of world affairs atlases

Uniform Title

Praeger series of world-affairs atlases

Subject

• Travel
• Middle East > Maps
• Middle East > Description and travel
• Middle East
• Middle East > Maps
• Middle East > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Maps
• Maps.
• Cartes géographiques.

Note

• Indexed.

Contents

The Middle East as a geographic region. Current political divisions -- Major relief features -- Climate -- Vegetation -- Irrigation -- The ancient Middle East -- The classical world -- The rise of Islam -- Turks and the crusades -- The Moslem empires in decline -- World War I -- Between the wars, 1918-39 -- Population -- Linguistic and religious communities : Predominant languages ; Predominant religions -- Resources and welfare -- Petroleum : Reserves ; Concessions and deposits ; Production ; Pipeline and refineries -- Nations of the Middle East. Iran : Physical features ; Land resources and people ; Foreign influence and incursions ; World War II and after -- Turkey : The modern state ; The Turkish straits ; Turkey and Russia ; Turkey and Greece -- Cyprus -- Syria : After World War I ; Under French control ; Syria today -- Lebanon -- Iraq : Iraq and its neighbors ; Aspects of landscape and life ; Iraq today -- Jordan -- Saudi Arabia -- Kuwait and the neutral zones -- Bahrain and Qatar -- Muscat and the Trucial states -- Aden and the Aden protectorate -- Yemen -- Egypt : The landscape ; The Nile River ; Waters of the Nile ; The Suez Canal ; The United Arab States, 1958-61 -- Libya -- Israel : Palestine ; The emergence of the state -- Palestine refugees ; The canal and the gulf -- The Jordan River -- The central treaty organization.

LCCN

map63000014

OCLC

• ocm00931305
• 931305
• SCSB-875389

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library