Middle East patterns : places, peoples, and politics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, CO :
Westview Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Physical and cultural geography
- Tricontinental junction : an introduction
- Middle East preview
- The Middle East : definition
- Regional unity of empires
- Aims and concepts : a glance
- The face of the earth
- Patterns of time : historical-geographical foundations
- Patterns of peoples, cultures, and settlements
- The desert and the sown : land use
- Riches beneath the earth
- Manufacturing and transportation
- The earth and the state : geopolitics
- Syria : Middle East heartland
- Lebanon and Cyprus : a mountain and an island
- Jordan : the land beyond and between
- Israel, "Palestine," and the disputed territories
- Iraq : modern Mesopotamia
- Saudi Arabia : development in the desert
- The Gulf and its oil states : an overview
- Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
- Oman and Yemen : the southern fringe
- Egypt : a river and a people
- A view of Egypt
- Turkey : bridgeland in Anatolia between Europe and the Middle East
- Iran : complex republic on the plateau
- Young state, ancient land.