Eastward to Tartary , Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-r...(展开全部)

An important new political and economic history of the unravelling of the British Empire and its connection to the decline of sterling as a leading international currency. Analyzing events such as the 1951 Iranian oil nationalization crisis and the 1956 Suez crisis, Steven Galpern provides a new perspective on British imperialism in the Middle East by reframing British policy i...(展开全部)

The history of America's political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines—from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli pea...(展开全部)

迈克尔•B.奥伦博士，历史学家，出生于美国，在普林斯顿大学和哥伦比亚大学接受教育，曾担任哈佛大学、耶鲁大学和乔治敦大学的客座教授，也是耶路撒冷Shalem中心的杰出研究员。 在以色列，奥伦博士曾是以色列国防军军官，作为伞兵参加过黎巴嫩战争，在海湾战争期间担任与美国第六舰队的联络员，在第二次黎巴嫩战争和2009年1月的加沙行动中担任以色列国防军发言人，以色列驻联合国代表团的顾问。2009年至2013年出任以色列驻美大使。

迈克尔•B.奥伦博士，历史学家，出生于美国，在普林斯顿大学和哥伦比亚大学接受教育，曾担任哈佛大学、耶鲁大学和乔治敦大学的客座教授，也是耶路撒冷Shalem中心的杰出研究员。 在以色列，奥伦博士曾是以色列国防军军官，作为伞兵参加过黎巴嫩战争，在海湾战争期间担任与美国第六舰队的联络员，在第二次黎巴嫩战争和2009年1月的加沙行动中担任以色列国防军发言人，以色列驻联合国代表团的顾问。2009年至2013年出任以色列驻美大使。

“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America’s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, “If you think ...(展开全部)

At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe for ever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the 'Rumeli' that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands they had conquered from Byzantium, together with their Christian inhabitants. In this original account of the region Mark Mazower dispe...(展开全部)

At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe for ever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the 'Rumeli' that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands they had conquered from Byzantium, together with their Christian inhabitants. In this original account of the region Mark Mazower dispe...(展开全部)

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The G...(展开全部)