Middle East patterns: places, peoples, and politics
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Main Author: Held, Colbert C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO Westview Press c2011
Edition:5th ed
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1. Physical and cultural geography -- Tricontinental junction: an introduction -- The face of the Earth -- Patterns of time: historical-geographical foundations -- Patterns of peoples, cultures, and settlements -- The desert and the sown: land use -- Riches beneath the earth -- Manufacturing and transportation -- The Earth and the state: geopolitics -- pt. 2. Regional geography -- Syria: Middle East heartland -- Lebanon and Cyprus: a mountain and an island -- Jordan: the land beyond and between -- Israel, Palestine and the disputed territories -- 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: complex republic on the plateau -- Glossary -- Geological time chart
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 659 p.)
ISBN:0813344018
0813391849
9780813344010
9780813391847

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