The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition

Author(s): Eugene Rogan

History

Named Best Book of the Year by theFinancial Times, theEconomistand theAtlantic

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated and expanded edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region to offer a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world.

"Deeply erudite and distinctly humane."-Atlantic

"An outstanding, gripping and exuberant narrative . . . that explains much of what we need to know about the world today."-Simon Sebag Montefiore,Financial Times

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It is a fascinating [story], and exceedingly well told. * Economist * engrossing and capacious... compulsively readable -- Robert Irwin * Guardian * Rogan gives a lucid account of political developments throughout the Arab lands... One of the special features of this book is that it draws on Arab writings (by memoirists, journalists and others) to give an idea of how the Arabs have experienced their own history -- Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph * Anyone who seeks to understand why the Islamic world bears a grudge against the West should read The Arabs. Few scholars know their subject better than Eugene Rogan, while even fewer are capable of rendering so complex a subject so engagingly readable. It is a joy to open, and a deprivation to put down. -- Sir Alistair Horne, author of A Savage War of Peace A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character sketches, witty asides and magisterial scholarship, that explains much of what we need to know about the world today -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * Financial Times * With eloquence, verve, and understanding, Eugene Rogan rightly reminds us that the world, and the Arabs themselves, need to remember the past. If we are to build a better relationship between the Arab world and the West, if we are to avoid making the same mistakes again and again, we need to know Arab history from its many high points to its low ones. I can think of no better guide on this crucially important journey than The Arabs. -- Margaret Macmillan, author of Paris 1919 and Nixon and Mao The masterly management of the material goes along with plain English, free of academic jargon. -- Hooky Walker * Asian Affairs *

Eugene Rogan is author of the bestselling The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. He is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford.

General Fields

  • : 9780141986548
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 537.0
  • : December 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Eugene Rogan
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 736
  • : HBJF1