ISBN: 0140220674
Godina izdanja: 1978
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Peter Mansfield - The Arabs
Penguin, 1978
572 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Part One. The Arab Past
1. Who are the Arabs? 13
2. The Great Arab Explosion 35
3. The Long Decline 54
4. The West Counter-attacks 63
5. Ottoman Subjects 73
6. The West Invades 118
7. The Seeds of Arab Nationalism 155
8. The Arab Revolt 187
9. The Great Deception: the West Disposes 209
10. Western Tutelage and the Rise of Arab Nationalism 228
11. Disaster in Palestine 277
12. The Second Arab Revolt 284
13. Disunity, Frustration and Defeat 317
14. The Turn of the Tide ? 356
Part Two. The Arab World Today
15. The Gulf: the Eldorado States 571
16. Oman: the Hermit Disclosed 385
17. The People`s Democratic Republic of Yemen:
the First Marxist Arab State? 389
18. The Yemen Arab Republic: the Awakened Recluse 394
19. Saudi Arabia: Financial Superpower 400
20. Syria: the Heart of Arabism 410
21. Lebanon: Arab Supermarket; Ruin or Reform? 417
22. Iraq: the Dynamic Outsider 425
23. Jordan: the Stubborn Survivor 433
24. Sudan: the Loose-limbed Giant 440
25. Egypf the Centre of Gravity 448
26. Libya: the Radical Right 459
27. Tunisia: the Dogmatic Moderate 467
28. Algeria: Austere Revolutionary 472
29. Morocco: Kingdom of the Far West 482
Part Three. The Arabs Today
30. Through Western Eyes 491
31. Through Arab Eyes 503
Renaissance and Revenge 503
Arab Unity: Ideal or Fantasy 504
Palestine: the OpenWound 510
Oil as Power 520
Some Arab Characteristics 534
The Way Ahead 548
Index 555

Peter Mansfield (1928–1996) corresponded regularly for the Financial Times, Economist, and London Sunday Times on Middle Eastern affairs. The author and editor of numerous works, he is best known for his comprehensive study The Arabs.

With world attention on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, here is a timely and completely updated survey of the Middle East. Drawing on his experience as a 30-year historian and journalist of Middle Eastern affairs, Mansfield explores in-depth the social, political, and historical aspects of the Arab World into the 1990s, including the causes and consequences of the Gulf War.


Nonfiction, History, 0140220674