History of the Arab Peoples, A
de Hourani, Albert
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 551 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Definitive history of the Arab people. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Mild rubbing to wraps. Light bumping to upper corners. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951858
Sinopsis
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial history up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth. In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Monroe Street Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 951858
- Título
- History of the Arab Peoples, A
- Autor
- Hourani, Albert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st
- Editorial
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Palabras clave
- Countries, Arabic, 1st, , .
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
