Empires of the sand : the struggle for mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923
The authors "show how the Hashemites played a decisive role in shaping present Middle Eastern boundaries and in hastening the collapse of Ottoman rule."--Jacket
History
1 online resource (x, 409 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
9780674039346, 0674039343
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Riding the Napoleonic storms
The Greek tinderbox
Muhammad Ali's imperial dream
Losing Egypt
Out of Europe
The young Turks in power
The Ottoman road to war
The entente's road to war
The lust for glory
Genocide in Armenia
Repression in the holy land
Istanbul and the Arabs
The "great Arab revolt"
Hussein's imperial bid
Dividing the bear's skin
The Balfour declaration
The undoing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Losing Syria
A kingdom for Faisal
And one for Abdullah
From empire to nation
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010