Middle East Patterns
Places, Peoples, And Politics, Second Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 14. February 1994
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-0-8133-8220-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the second edition of a comprehensive study of the Middle East from both a topical and a country-by-country regional perspective. Discussion of the physical environment creates the context for a depiction of cultural-political and geographical patterns which are the essence of the volume. "Then and now" pairs of photographs illustrate the developments of recent decades, and updated tables, graphs and maps are also included.
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Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8220-3 (9780813382203)
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02/1994
2nd Edition
Westview Press Inc
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Content
Part 1 Physical and cultural geography: tricontinental junction - an introduction; patterns of time - historical-geographical foundations; the lands and the waters; the skies and the winds - climate; soils, vegetation and animal life; patterns of people and cultures; the desert and the sown - land use; riches beneath the earth; manufacturing and transportation; where people congregate; the earth and the State; geopolitics. Part 2 Regional geography: Syria - Middle-East heartland; Lebanon and Cyprus - a mountain and an island; Jordan - the land beyond; Israel and occupied territories - "Palestine" or "Eretz Yisrael"?; Iraq - modern Mesopotamia; Saudi Arabia - development in the desert; the Gulf and its oil states; Oman and Yemen - the southern fringe; Egypt - a river and a people; Turkey - bridgeland in Anatolia; Iran - new republic on the plateau.