Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
ISBN-13:
9780393337709
ISBN-10:
0393337707
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
528 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393337709
ISBN-10:
0393337707
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
528 pages
Summary
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (ISBN-13: 9780393337709 and ISBN-10: 0393337707), written by authors
Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2009.
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A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.
Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as 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). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today. 30 illustrations; 2 maps
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