Building Nations I: The Arab World
- Turkey: unlikely survivor of the Ottoman collapse
- Persia/Iran: A special case in the Middle East
- Egypt: grudging pawn of the British
- Iraq
- Why Is the West So Interested in the Middle East?
- Syria and Lebanon
- The Arabian Peninsula before oil
- Jordan: stability amid turmoil
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Up until the end of World War I (1914–18; war in which Great Britain, France, the United States, and their allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and their allies), the Middle East had enjoyed...
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