Full name: The Arabs: A History

Author: Eugene Rogan Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780465025046 9780465071005 0465025048 0465071007

To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. Years of tone-deaf US policies have left the region powerless to control its own destiny - playing into a longstanding sense of shame and impotence for a once-mighty people. In this definitive account, preeminent historian Eugene Rogan traces five centuries of Arab history, from the Ottoman conquests through the British and French colonial periods and up to the present age of unipolar American hegemony. The Arab world is now more acutely aware than ever of its own vulnerability, and this sense of subjection carries with it vast geopolitical consequences. Drawing from Arab sources little known to Western readers, Rogan's will transform our understanding of the past, present, and future of one of the world's most tumultuous regions. Similar books: The Arabs by Peter Mansfield History of the Arabs by Philip K. Hitti The Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee Heroes of History by Will Durant Mankind and Mother Earth by Arnold J. Toynbee 1001 People Who Made America by Alan Axelrod Peoples and Empires by Anthony Pagden Columbus Was Last by Patrick Huyghe The Arab Awakening by George Antonius The Modern Middle East by James L. Gelvin A Middle East Mosaic by Bernard Lewis A Line in the Sand by James Barr Rising Tide by John M. Barry The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogan Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Modern Times by Paul Johnson