Roger Hardy

The Poisoned Well

Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Poisoned Well, veteran BBC journalist Roger Hardy presents a realist's history of the Middle East, by weaving together stories of political strife and vivid firsthand accounts, to illustrate that the current conflicts and crises of the Middle East are borne out of the troubled legacy of Western imperialism in the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780190056339
• ISBN-10: 0190056339
• Artikelnr.: 55749640

Autorenporträt

Roger Hardy worked for more than twenty years as a Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service. He is the author of The Muslim Revolt: A Journey through Political Islam (Hurst and Colombia University Press, 2010) and is a Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies in Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Remembering Colonialism
1. Out of the Ashes
2. Sword of Arabia
3. The Struggle for the Levant
4. Lovers of Zion
5. Abdullah's Little Kingdom
6. Oil and Empire
7. The Pigeons of Denshawai
8. Revolution on the Tigris
9. The Battle of Algiers
10. Arabian Endgame
Epilogue: The Poisoned Well
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Dramatis Personae