The Near East: A Cultural History

by Arthur Cotterell

Book Overview

This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline of the civilizations and cultures that dominated the region, one that has had an immense impact on the development of humankind, ever since the ancient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849047960
• ISBN13: 9781849047968
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"