EAN: 9781913368241

CONTESTED LAND - TG FRASER GEBUNDEN

Until the First World War  the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East for four centuries.
But its collapse  coupled with the subsequent clash of European imperial policies  unleashed a
surge in political feeling among the people as they vied for national self-determination. Over
the century that followed  the region has become almost synonymous with unrest and conflict.
Why? In an accessible survey of the last century  Contested Lands tells the story of the Middle
East: what happened  why  and what it all means today. With a focus on the many conflicts in
the region over the last one hundred years  T. G. Fraser analyses the fault lines of the
tension: the damaging legacies of imperialism  the creation of the State of Israel  the
competition between secular  autocratic rulers and emerging democratic and theocratic forces 
and the rise - and fall - of Arab Nationalism in the face of fraying regional alliances and the
Islamic revival. Against this backdrop comes the twenty-first century  marked first by the
tragedy of 9 11  then the 'Arab Spring' and the ongoing Syria's civil war. And in the midst of
it all  complex social and economic change have transformed the region. In Contested Lands  T.
G. Fraser untangles the threads of history in the Middle East and  in doing so  weaves a
detailed and insightful picture of a troubled region and why its heritage remains important
today.

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