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Access to History: The Middle East 1908-2011 Second Edition
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Language
English
ISBN
9781471838422
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 The Great Powers in the Middle East 1900–39
1 The Jewish claim to Palestine
2 Anglo-French rule in the Middle East 1919–39
3 British rule in Palestine 1919–39
CHAPTER 2 The final years of the British mandate in Palestine 1945–8
1 Terrorism and the end of British rule in Palestine 1945–8
2 The UN partition plan and civil war 1947–8
3 Key debate
CHAPTER 3 The first Arab–Israeli War 1948–9
1 The war of 1948–9
2 The results of the war
3 Key debate
CHAPTER 4 The Suez Crisis of 1956
1 Nasser and the origins of the Suez Crisis
2 Britain, France, Israel and the Suez War
CHAPTER 5 The Six-day War of 1967
1 The background to the Six-day War
2 The conflict and its results
3 Key debate
CHAPTER 6 War, oil and peacemaking 1967–79
1 The origins, course and impact of the October War 1973
2 The politics of oil in the Middle East
3 Peacemaking at Camp David 1978
CHAPTER 7 Nasser, Egypt and Arab nationalism
1 The emergence of Arab nationalism
2 The peak of Arab nationalism 1955–61
3 Nasser’s rule in Egypt
4 Egypt and Syria after Nasser 1970–2011
5 Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabi movement
6 Key debate
CHAPTER 8 The PLO, Lebanon and the first Intifada
1 The Palestinian diaspora and the PLO
2 Wars in Lebanon
3 The Palestinian Intifada 1987
CHAPTER 9 The USA, the Soviet Union and the UN in the Arab–Israeli conflict
1 The role of the USA in the Middle East
2 The Soviet role in the Middle East
3 The UN and the Arab–Israeli conflict
CHAPTER 10 The challenge of Israeli–Palestinian peacemaking 1990–2011
1 The Israeli–Palestinian peace agreement 1993
2 The problems of peacemaking 1993–9
3 The second Intifada and after: 2000–11
CHAPTER 11 Turkey, Iraq, Iran and the West 1908–2011
1 Ataturk and the Turkish Republic 1920–50
2 Iraq: from King Faisal to Saddam Hussein
3 Iran: from the shah to the ayatollahs
4 The Iran–Iraq War 1980–8
5 Iraq, Kuwait and the Gulf War 1990–1
6 The UN, the USA and the invasion of Iraq 2003
CHAPTER 12 From Arab nationalism to Islamic fundamentalism
1 The rise of political Islam
2 Al-Qaida and the globalisation of terror
CHAPTER 13 Conclusion
Study guide
Timeline
Glossary of terms
Further reading
Index
Back Cover
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