Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, 1516-1922 : a political history
1966, First Edition. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477753
Physical description; xii, 337 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-320) and index. Contents; Part I. The Ottoman Heyday – The Rise and Zenith of the Ottoman Empire – The overthrow of the Mamluk Sultanate – Suleyman the Magnificent and the Arab lands – Part II. The Ottoman Decline – The Ottoman Empire in decline – Egypt in the seventeenth century – The ascendancy of the beylicate in eighteenth-century Egypt – Ottoman decline and the Syrian province – The amirate of the Ma'nids and Shihabs in Lebanon – The ascendancy of Zahir al-'Umar and al-Jazzar in Syria – The Iraqi provinces in the period of Ottoman decline – Two challenges: the Wahhabis and Bonaparte – Part III. The Last Phase of Ottoman Rule – The revival of the Ottoman Empire – Muhammad 'Ali Pasha – Egypt at the crossroads – Egyptian nationalism and the British occupation – Syria and Lebanon during the Ottoman revival – The Iraqi provinces during the Ottoman revival – The emergence of Arab nationalism – The First World War – The post-war settlement in the Fertile Crescent and Egypt. Subjects; Egypt – History – 1517-1882. Turkey – History – Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. Middle East – History – 1517-20th century. Egypt – Relations – Middle East. Middle East – Relations – Egypt.
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