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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

Door David Hirst

Categorie	Geschiedenis Midden-Oosten
Boeknummer	#374496-XI34
Titel	Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
Auteur	Hirst, David
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Faber & Faber
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	057123741X
ISBN13	9780571237418
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original grey boards, dust jacket, small maps in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A magisterial history of Lebanon and the Middle East, from the end of Ottoman rule to the Hizbullah and Hamas wars of today, by David Hirst, the veteran Middle East journalist and author. 'Beware of small states', wrote the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, of nineteenth-century Europe: they are the victims of greater states, yet a source of danger to them too. Lebanon – a country no bigger than Wales, chequerboard of competing sects, crossroads of East and West – might almost have been designed to be the 'small state' of the Middle East. It is the battleground on which the region's greater states pursue their strategic, political and ideological conflicts – conflicts that sometimes escalate into full-scale proxy wars. With extraordinary skill and lucidity, Hirst charts ... (Lees verder)the intricate interplay between a uniquely complex country and its geopolitical environment through all the broad historical experiences of the modern Middle East: the transition from Ottoman Turkish rule to European colonial domination; the loss of Palestine to the settler-state of Israel, and the wars and ceaseless violence that followed; the pan-Arab nationalist idea, the struggle for independence and the revolutionary seizures of power that it inspired; and, with the failure of nationalism, the rise of fundamentalist Islam, begetter of Hizbullah and Hamas, that is pre-eminent today. For Hirst, this history of Lebanon is also a history of the whole Middle East, and, above all, of the central drama – the Arab-Israeli conflict – which has plagued it for nearly a century.
Pagina's	480
Conditie	Goed — Name on first free endpaper.
Prijs	€ 9,00

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