Middle East Patterns: Places, People, and Politics - Softcover

Held, Colbert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813348773 ISBN 13: 9780813348773

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This book covers the Middle East from a topical or systematic perspective focusing on the states of the Gulf and southern Arabian Peninsula. It includes the dramatic developments in the Arab world across North Africa and in the heart of the Middle East since late 2010 termed as the "Arab Spring.".

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Review:

A fine sourcebook and text on the Middle East. -- The Professional Geographer If there is one book to read this year on the Middle East, this is the one! -- Choice ...informative and instructive about a fascinating region. -- Middle East Quarterly

"A fine sourcebook and text on the Middle East."
"The Professional Geographer"
"If there is one book to read this year on the Middle East, this is the one!"
"Choice"
"informative and instructive about a fascinating region."
"Middle East Quarterly"
Contemporary, accessible and informative.
"The Midwest Book Review"
"This timely revision of this already highly regarded text is just what we need to keep us abreast of developments in the Middle East. The treatment of economic factors, including natural resources, ecology, and land use patterns, sheds much light on the potential for economic cooperation and competition in the region over the next decade. Combined with its concise summaries of the linguistic and cultural underpinnings of the area, this work provides us the background we need to place contemporary political developments in context."
Charles O. Cecil, US Ambassador, retired"

"A fine sourcebook and text on the Middle East."
--The Professional Geographer

"If there is one book to read this year on the Middle East, this is the one!"
--Choice

..".informative and instructive about a fascinating region."
--Middle East Quarterly

"Contemporary, accessible and informative."
--The Midwest Book Review

"This timely revision of this already highly regarded text is just what we need to keep us abreast of developments in the Middle East. The treatment of economic factors, including natural resources, ecology, and land use patterns, sheds much light on the potential for economic cooperation and competition in the region over the next decade. Combined with its concise summaries of the linguistic and cultural underpinnings of the area, this work provides us the background we need to place contemporary political developments in context."
--Charles O. Cecil, US Ambassador, retired

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0813348773
• ISBN 13: 9780813348773
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 727