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Title: Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East.(Book review)
Author: John J. Curry
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2010
Publisher: Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc.
Volume: 72 Issue: 3 Page: 631(2)
Article Type: Book review
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Title: Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East.(Book review)
Author: John J. Curry
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2010
Publisher: Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc.
Volume: 72 Issue: 3 Page: 631(2)
Article Type: Book review
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. (New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. Pp. 507. $27.95.)
This work by the husband-and-wife journalist team of Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac follows up on their earlier study of Western intervention in the region of Central Asia, Tournament of Shadows [1999]. Built around the biographies of key individuals who helped to shape (or more frequently, misshape) the region's political and economic future, they outline a number of key moments in modern Middle Eastern history from the closing decades of the nineteenth century up to the present. In seeking to "recover, critically but empathetically, the mentality that..."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherWordware
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1556222459
- ISBN 13 9781556222450
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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