In the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region between them to the birth of Israel, A Line in the Sand is a gripping narrative of the last gasp of imperialism, with tales of unscrupulous double-dealing, cynical manipulation, an...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·巴尔（James Barr），英国《每日电讯报》政治与城市话题撰稿人，曾在中东地区广泛游历。他也是《在沙漠中放把火：T.E.劳伦斯和英国在阿拉伯的秘密战争》的作者。在撰写《瓜分沙洲》一书时，他是牛津大学圣安东尼学院的访问学者。译者简介徐臻，耶路撒冷希伯来大学中东研究硕士。

Sandy Tolan is the author of Me & Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-five Years Later. He has writtern for the New York Times Magazine and for more that forty other magazines and newspaters. As co-founder of Homelands Productions, Tolan has produced dozens of radio documentaries for NPR and PRI. He has reported from more than twenty-five countries, especially in the Middle East a...(展开全部)

If medieval China, that vast commercial empire glimpsed by Marco Polo, had gunpowder, paper, a huge army, the compass and other technological wonders, then why didn't the Industrial Revolution occur there instead of Western Europe? Why did the Chinese remain technically backwards for centuries and fall prey to the West's political dominance? These questions are addressed in thi...(展开全部)

An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence--an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops loote...(展开全部)

This innovative volume provides an introduction to twelve seminal events in the international relations of East Asia prior to 1900: twelve events that everyone interested in the history of world politics should know. The East Asian historical experience provides a wealth of new and different cases, patterns, and findings that will expand horizons from the Western, Eurocentric e...(展开全部)

At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality. Yet it is surprisingly difficult for us to understand these forces, for we cannot see what surrounds us so closely. This book analyzes our condition by looking at the work of two great thinkers, one of wh...(展开全部)

Kim Ghattas covers international affairs for the BBC as well as Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She was the BBC's State Department correspondent from 2008 to 2013 and traveled regularly with the secretary of state. She was previously a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, based in Beirut. Ghattas was part of an Emmy Award-winning BBC team cove...(展开全部)

Kim Ghattas covers international affairs for the BBC as well as Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She was the BBC's State Department correspondent from 2008 to 2013 and traveled regularly with the secretary of state. She was previously a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, based in Beirut. Ghattas was part of an Emmy Award-winning BBC team cove...(展开全部)