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

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Main Author: Held, Colbert C.
Other Authors: Cummings, John Thomas, Cotter, John V.
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2011], ©2011.
Edition:Fifth edition.
Subjects:
Middle East.
Middle East > Geography.
Middle East > Social conditions.
Middle East > Politics and government.
Physical Description:pages ; cm.
Format: Book
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.