A Concise History of the Middle East

512 ••• Bibliographie Essay

CHAPTER 14

As this book moves into the modern period, let us recommend some general
books on various aspects of the Middle East in the twentieth century. The most
serviceable, though very detailed, political surveys can be found in William Cleve¬
land, History of the Modern Middle East, 3rd ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2004);
James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005); Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since
the First World War (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
2005); and Malcolm Yapp, The Near East Since the First World War (New York:
Longman, 1996).
No book better captures the life and character of the Middle East's most
renowned twentieth-century westernizer than Lord Kinross's Ataturk (London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964; New York: William Morrow, 1965), but see also An¬
drew Mango's scholarly Ataturk (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000). A Turk¬
ish Web site that contains excerpts from Ataturk's speeches is http://www.gazi
.edu.tr/ataturk.html. Halide Edib [Adivar], Turkey Faces West (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1930; reprinted 1973); Irfan Orga, Phoenix Ascendant The Rise of
Modern Turkey (London: R. Hale, 1958); and Ahmed Amin Yalman, Turkey in My
Time (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956) provide Turkish views of
the Kemalist era. Nicole and Hugh Pope have written an enjoyable general his¬
tory: Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey (Woodstock, NY: Overlook
Press, 1997). A general Web site on Turkey that includes some maps and refer¬
ences is http://vlib.iue.it/history/asia/Turkey/.
Because the Pahlavi dynasty was controversial, unbiased histories of Reza Shah
were slow to appear. Now available are Cyrus Ghani, Iran and the Rise of Reza
Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Rule (London and New York: I. B. Tauris,
1998); and Mohammad Gholi Majd, Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of
Iran (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). See also Amin Banani, The
Modernization of Iran, 1921-1941 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961). On
modern Iran generally, see Richard Cottam, Nationalism in Iran, 2nd ed. (Pitts¬
burgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979); and Nikki Keddie and Richard Yann,
Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2003). Homa Katouzian has written a comprehensive biography, Musaddiq and
the Struggle for Power in Iran (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1990). You may
then read the volume edited by Mark Gasiorowski, Mohammad Mosaddeq and the
1953 Coup in Iran (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004). A Web site on
Iran up to 1987 is http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/irtoc.html.
The best accounts of Ibn Sa'ud's life are David Howarth's The Desert King (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1964); and Leslie McLaughlin's Ibn Saud: Founder of a King¬
dom (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993). Introductions to the rise of Saudi Ara¬
bia include Joseph Kostiner's: The Making of Saudi Arabia, 1916-1936: From