00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Cleveland, William L. aut Verfasser/-in Middle East Palästina Geschichte Mittlerer Osten Zeitgeschichte History Naher Osten A History of the Modern Middle East Third Edition William L. Cleveland Boulder, Colorado Westview Press 2007 This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, Cleveland focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. While built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, carefully crafted account. The revised and updated third edition of this benchmark text places the developments of the 1990s in a new historical perspective and includes an examination of key events of the early twenty-first century. An epilogue offers a critical evaluation, from a historian's perspective, of the al-Qa'ida attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the early phases of the US occupation of Iraq. 9780813340487 9780813340487 0813340489 0813340489 S. 588