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Middle East patterns : places, peoples, and politics / Colbert C. Held and John Thomas Cummings ; cartography by John V. Cotter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2011.Edition: 5th edDescription: xxiii, 659 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780813344010 (alk. paper)
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LOC classification:
  • DS44 .H41 2011
Contents:
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 : an overview -- Oman and Yemen : the southern fringe -- Egypt : a river and a people -- Turkey : bridgeland in Anatolia between Europe and the Middle East -- Iran : complex republic on the plateau -- Glossary -- Geological time chart.
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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 : an overview -- Oman and Yemen : the southern fringe -- Egypt : a river and a people -- Turkey : bridgeland in Anatolia between Europe and the Middle East -- Iran : complex republic on the plateau -- Glossary -- Geological time chart.

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