The Arabs: A History - Brossura

Rogan, Eugene

 
9780465025046: The Arabs: A History

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The definitive history of the Arab world


Named Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Economist and the Atlantic

An International Bestseller

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context.

In this updated and expanded edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region to offer a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world.

"Deeply erudite and distinctly humane." --Atlantic

"An outstanding, gripping and exuberant narrative . . . that explains much of what we need to know about the world today." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times

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Eugene Rogan is the Director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. The author of Basic's own The Arabs and of the international bestseller The Fall of the Ottomans, Rogan received the Albert Hourani Prize and a book of the year award from the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He lives in Oxford, England.




Eugene Rogan is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and the director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. The author of numerous books, including the international bestseller The Fall of the Ottomans, Rogan is the recipient of the Albert Hourani Prize. He lives in Oxford, England.

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