基本信息出版社：Westview Press
页码：608 页
出版日期：2004年07月
ISBN：0813340489
International Standard Book Number：0813340489
条形码：9780813340487
EAN：9780813340487
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, Cleveland focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. While built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, carefully crafted account. The revised and updated third edition of this benchmark text places the developments of the 1990s in a new historical perspective and includes an examination of key events of the early twenty-first century. An epilogue offers a critical evaluation, from a historian's perspective, of the al-Qa'ida attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the early phases of the US occupation of Iraq.
作者简介 William Cleveland is professor of history at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver, British Columbia.