Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Yale, William

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.

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