A Concise History of the Middle East

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A CONCISE HISTORY of the MIDDLE EAST EIGHTH EDITION Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. Lawrence Davidson A Member of the Perseus Books Group ...

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To the memory of Agnes Inglis O'Neill— teacher, counselor, friend. She taught every subject with a spirit of fun and each pupil ...

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations xiii ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Introduction Preface to the Eighth Edition xv What Is History?, Then and Now, There and Here, The Physical Sett ...

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PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION This textbook has now come to be called "classic," and its original author has retired from teachi ...

xvi ••• Preface people—not only students—care about what is going on now in the Mid- dle East and how things came to be that way ...

ONE Introduction In this book we introduce the Middle East to students and other readers who have never been exposed to the area ...

2 • 1 INTRODUCTION WHAT IS HISTORY? Why history? Some of you may have picked up a rather dismal picture of history from school o ...

What Is History? • 3 mouth. Historians cannot write or teach about an event that was never recorded. The unrecorded event might ...

4 • 1 INTRODUCTION were like a century ago? Do the English have certain traits that span dif¬ ferences of time or region, such t ...

Then and Now, There and Here • 5 THEN AND NOW, THERE AND HERE But why, you may ask, should anyone want to study the Middle East, ...