02369cam a22003254a 4500 4138144 BD-DhUL 20160731175423.0 030522s2003 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 2003044216 0393058492 (OCoLC)ocm52334902 (NNC)4138144 BD-DhUL BD-DhUL BD-DhUL pcc aw----- DS44 .K43 2003 956.04 KES Keay, John. Sowing the wind : the seeds of conflict in the Middle East / John Keay. 1st American ed. New York : Norton, 2003. xiii, 506 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-490) and index. Pt. 1. 1900-1918 -- 1. Straws in the Wind -- 2. Getting up Steam -- 3. Something Connected with a Camel -- 4. A Tale of Two Cities -- Pt. 2. 1918-1936 -- 5. Cairo Rose -- 6. Uncharted Territory -- 7. Three Wee Kings of Orient Are -- 8. Stifling Syria -- 9. Stranger than History -- Pt. 3. 1936-1945 -- 10. The Arab Reawakening -- 11. Sideshows of War -- 12. Taking Sides -- Pt. 4. 1945-1960 -- 13. Cold War, Hot Tempers -- 14. Palestine Partitioned -- 15. Coup and Countercoup -- 16. Game Up. "Sowing the Wind examines the critical political underpinnings of conflict in the Middle East. Keay (known for his best-selling history of India) focuses on the hard-core countries of the Middle East known as the fertile crescent: Egypt, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Keay's account is absolutely riveting as he follows the West's manipulation, management, and mismanagement of the Middle East from 1900 up through the ascent of Arafat to power in the early 1960s. He ends with a forty-page tour-de-force update of the last forty years of American negotiation of economic and political fault lines in the Middle East." "Keay's sweeping history pre-Balfour to post-Suez unearths a host of surprising firsts, from the Gulf's first "gusher" to the first aerial assault on Baghdad, the first of Syria's innumerable coups, and the first terrorist outrages and suicide bombers."--BOOK JACKET. Arab-Israeli conflict. Middle East. ddc BK 90833 90833 0 0 ddc 0 956_040000000000000_KES 0 NFIC 151708 DUL DUL GEN 2016-07-31 purchased 956.04 KES 445471 2016-07-31 2016-07-31 BK