Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East (Record no. 220823)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0719555833
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Transcribing agency AL
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Edition number 23
Classification number 956.04
Item number KEAS
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Personal name John Keay
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9 (RLIN) 10961
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Title Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. John Murray
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2003
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Extent xviii,506 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 24x16 cm.
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Summary, etc. he Western powers--Britain, France and the USA--discovered the imperatives for intervention that have plunged the Middle East region into crisis ever since. It was then, too, that most of the region's modern-day states were created and their regimes forged; and then that their management by the West earned abiding resentment.<br/>Sowing the Wind tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes. This is that rarest of works, a history with humour, an epic with attitude, a dirge that delights. Here are unearthed a host of unregarded precedents, 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. Little known figures--junior officers, contractors, explorers, spies--contest the orthodoxies of Arabist giants like T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Glubb Pasha and Loy Henders Four Roosevelts juggle with the fate of nations. Authors as alien as E.M. Forster and Arthur Koestler add their testimony. And in Antonius and Weizmann, the Mufti and Begin, Arab is inexorably juxtaposed with Jew. Pertinent, scholarly and irreverent, Sowing the Wind provides an ambitious insight into the making of the world's most fraught arena.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of Middle East
9 (RLIN) 10957
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Arab Israeli Conflict
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Politics and Government
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Personal name KEAY (John)
9 (RLIN) 10960
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   956.04 KEAS GF03318 11/29/2021 11/29/2021 George Fernandes Collections