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Praeger, Published 2001. Hardcover, vi, 293 pp.; 25 cm; First Edition (with full number line).
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt-ruled red title panel and gilt lettering on front and spine. Mild shelf and edge wear, light fading to red panel on spine. Sticker residue at lower left of rear board. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A geopolitical history of the Middle East from the First World War to the end of the century, approached from both the global and the regional perspective. Sicker divides the period into an imperialist phase lasting to the Second World War, the Cold War, and the post-Soviet era, and gives most space to the mandate years: Britain and the Arabs, the Zionist question in Palestine, Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt, Transcaucasia, and Iran. Later chapters cover the geopolitics of oil, the Arab-Israeli wars, Suez, the Nasserist era, Camp David, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf to 1999. The book continues Sicker's Praeger series on the region, following The Pre-Islamic Middle East, The Islamic World in Ascendancy, and The Islamic World in Decline. Sicker, a former senior executive in the U.S. government, taught political science at American University and George Washington University. Selected bibliography and index. Contents: Introduction; Britain and the Arabs, 1914-20; Britain, France, and the Zionists, 1914-20; The Palestine Quagmire, 1920-39; The Emergence of Transjordan, 1920-28; France, Syria, and the Emergence of Lebanon, 1920-36; Britain and Iraq, 1918-39; Transition in the Arabian Peninsula, 1910-36; The British Protectorate in Egypt, 1914-38; Turmoil in Transcaucasia, 1917-21; Developments in Iran, 1914-37; The World War II Period, 1939-45; The Geopolitics of Oil, 1914-47; Prelude to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-48; The First Arab-Israeli War and Its Aftermath, 1948-52; The Suez Crisis, 1951-57; The Nasserist Era, 1952-67; Inter-Arab Rivalry and the 1967 War; The Torturous Road to Camp David, 1967-79; Crisis and Conflict in Lebanon, 1970-85; Conflict in the Persian Gulf Region, 1973-99; At Century's End; Selected Bibliography; Index.