Middle East Patterns: Places, People, and Politics

by Colbert C. Held, John Thomas Cummings

Overview

This book covers the Middle East from a topical or systematic perspective focusing on the states of the Gulf and southern Arabian Peninsula. It includes the dramatic developments in the Arab world across North Africa and in the heart of the Middle East since late 2010 termed as the "Arab Spring.".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813348773
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	11/13/1989
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	728
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Held, Colbert C. | Cummings, John Thomas

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments to the Sixth Edition — A Note on Transliteration — Physical and Cultural Geography — Tricontinental Junction: An Introduction — The Face of the Earth — Patterns of Time Historical-Geographical Foundations — Patterns of Peoples, Cultures, and Settlements: A Demographic Overview — The Desert and the Sown: Land Use — Riches Beneath the Earth — Manufacturing And Transportation — The Earth And State: Geopolitics — The Earth And The State: Conflicts on the ground — Regional Geography — Manufacturing and Transportation: Middle East Heartland — Lebanon And Cyprus: A Mountain And An Island — Lebanon And Cyprus: The Land Beyond And Between — Israel And Palestine: One Land, Two Polities — Iraq: Modern Mesopotamia — Saudi Arabia — Three City States Along the Gulf — The Horn of Arabia — Yemen Arabia Felix — Egypt A River And A People — Turkey Bridgeland in Anatolia — Iran: Complex Republic on the Plateau — Partial Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

A fine sourcebook and text on the Middle East. — The Professional Geographer If there is one book to read this year on the Middle East, this is the one! — Choice …informative and instructive about a fascinating region. — Middle East Quarterly

Editorial Reviews

"A fine sourcebook and text on the Middle East."
—The Professional Geographer

"If there is one book to read this year on the Middle East, this is the one!"
—Choice

"…informative and instructive about a fascinating region."
—Middle East Quarterly

“Contemporary, accessible and informative.”
—The Midwest Book Review

"This timely revision of this already highly regarded text is just what we need to keep us abreast of developments in the Middle East. The treatment of economic factors, including natural resources, ecology, and land use patterns, sheds much light on the potential for economic cooperation and competition in the region over the next decade. Combined with its concise summaries of the linguistic and cultural underpinnings of the area, this work provides us the background we need to place contemporary political developments in context."
—Charles O. Cecil, US Ambassador, retired

From the Publisher