Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
ISBN-13:
9780393061994
ISBN-10:
039306199X
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
512 pages
Category:
Middle East History
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ISBN-13:
9780393061994
ISBN-10:
039306199X
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
512 pages
Category:
Middle East History
Summary
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (ISBN-13: 9780393061994 and ISBN-10: 039306199X), written by authors
Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2008.
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A brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.
Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel's godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq); some controversial (the CIA's Miles Copeland and the Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. As a bonus, we meet the British Empire's power couple, Lord and Lady Lugard (Flora Shaw): she named Nigeria, he ruled it; she used the power of the Times of London to attempt a regime change in the gold-rich Transvaal. The narrative is character-driven, and the aim is to restore to life the colorful figures who for good or ill gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today. 30; 2 mapsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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