The near east a modern history
By William Yale
- Ann Arbor U. of Mich. Press 1958
- 485 p.
Includes Index
Historical foundations -- The Ottoman Turks -- The Turkish awakening, 1820-1910 -- The anatomy of power politics -- Foreign affairs and domestic crises -- European intervention and penetration, 1860-81 -- Abdul Hamid : the last Ottoman autocrat, 1876-1909 -- Abdul Hamid and the Armenians -- Trouble in Crete and the Balkans -- Abdul Hamid and Zionism -- The Young Turk revolution of 1908 -- The Italian and the Balkan Wars -- The Arab renaissance and nationalist movement, 1866-1914 -- Turkey enters World War I -- Turkey at war : the first two years -- Turkey at war : the last two years -- The Arab revolt -- Zionism achieves its first objective -- Partition of the Ottoman Empire -- Turkey : the road to modernization -- The kingdom of Iraq -- Syria and Lebanon between two world wars -- Arabia -- Oil in the Near and Middle East -- Stormy years in Palestine, 1919-1939 -- The Arab Near East during World War II -- The Turks resume their historical role -- The Near East : a focus of world tensions -- Revolutionary Egypt -- Unsettled business.