TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eugene Rogan
AU  - Eugene L Rogan
TI  - The Arabs:  : a history
SN  - 9780141986548
U1  - 909.04927 ROG 3
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London, England ; New York, NY
PB  -  : Penguin Books
KW  - History
KW  - Arabs -- History
KW  - Civilization, Arab
KW  - Arab countries -- History
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Arab nationalism
N1  - From Cairo to Istanbul --
The Arab challenge to Ottoman rule --
The Egyptian empire of Muhammad ʼAli --
The perils of reform --
The first wave of colonialism : North Africa --
Divide and rule : World War I and the postwar settlement --
The British empire in the Middle East --
The French empire in the Middle East --
The Palestine disaster and its consequences --
The rise of Arab nationalism --
The decline of Arab nationalism --
The age of oil --
The power of Islam --
After the Cold War --
Epilogue --
Postscript: year one of the Arab revolutions
N2  - "Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the 16th century, this book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power."--
ER  -