The Arabs A History

by Rogan, Eugene

• ISBN13: 9780465025046
• ISBN10: 0465025048
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-12
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan argues the Arab world today is painfully conscious of its vulnerability to outside powers. This sense of subjection to external powers carries vast geopolitical consequences for both the region and the Westerners who attempt to control it. Updated with a new postscript on the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions of 2011, The Arabsis an invaluable, groundbreaking and comprehensive account by one of the most respected authorities on the Middle East.

Author Biography

Eugene Rogan is the director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Winner of the Albert Hourani Prize, the book of the year award from the Middle East Studies Association of North America, he lives in Oxford, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
From Cairo to Istanbul	p. 13
The Arab Challenge to Ottoman Rule	p. 39
The Egyptian Empire of Muhammad 'Ali	p. 61
The Perils of Reform	p. 85
The First Wave of Colonialism: North Africa	p. 109
Divide and Rule: World War I and the Postwar Settlement	p. 149
The British Empire in the Middle East	p. 175
The French Empire in the Middle East	p. 211
The Palestine Disaster and Its Consequences	p. 247
The Rise of Arab Nationalism	p. 277
The Decline of Arab Nationalism	p. 319
The Age of Oil	p. 355
The Power of Islam	p. 397
After the Cold War	p. 439
Epilogue	p. 483
Postscript	p. 499
Acknowledgments	p. 505
Permissions	p. 507
Notes	p. 509
Index	p. 539
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