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The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few quest
London and the Invention of the Middle East
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In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the British Government, the banks, and leading individuals in London reached historic decisions that determined t
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Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these v
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Inventing Iraq
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Offering a penetrating history of the formation of modern Iraq, Toby Dodge uncovers numerous troubling parallels between the policies of a declining British emp