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_b.K43 2003
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_bKES
100 1 _aKeay, John.
245 1 0 _aSowing the wind :
_bthe seeds of conflict in the Middle East /
_cJohn Keay.
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bNorton,
_c2003.
300 _axiii, 506 p., [32] p. of plates :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 485-490) and index.
505 0 0 _gPt. 1.
_t1900-1918 --
_g1.
_tStraws in the Wind --
_g2.
_tGetting up Steam --
_g3.
_tSomething Connected with a Camel --
_g4.
_tA Tale of Two Cities --
_gPt. 2.
_t1918-1936 --
_g5.
_tCairo Rose --
_g6.
_tUncharted Territory --
_g7.
_tThree Wee Kings of Orient Are --
_g8.
_tStifling Syria --
_g9.
_tStranger than History --
_gPt. 3.
_t1936-1945 --
_g10.
_tThe Arab Reawakening --
_g11.
_tSideshows of War --
_g12.
_tTaking Sides --
_gPt. 4.
_t1945-1960 --
_g13.
_tCold War, Hot Tempers --
_g14.
_tPalestine Partitioned --
_g15.
_tCoup and Countercoup --
_g16.
_tGame Up.
520 1 _a"Sowing the Wind examines the critical political underpinnings of conflict in the Middle East. Keay (known for his best-selling history of India) focuses on the hard-core countries of the Middle East known as the fertile crescent: Egypt, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Keay's account is absolutely riveting as he follows the West's manipulation, management, and mismanagement of the Middle East from 1900 up through the ascent of Arafat to power in the early 1960s. He ends with a forty-page tour-de-force update of the last forty years of American negotiation of economic and political fault lines in the Middle East." "Keay's sweeping history pre-Balfour to post-Suez unearths a host of surprising firsts, from the Gulf's first "gusher" to the first aerial assault on Baghdad, the first of Syria's innumerable coups, and the first terrorist outrages and suicide bombers."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 _aArab-Israeli conflict.
651 0 _aMiddle East.
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