The Arabs
by Eugene Rogan · Eugene Rogan
Eugene Rogan's narrative history of the Arab world from the sixteenth-century Ottoman conquest to the present, drawing on diaries, memoirs, and government archives. Traces the political and social forces behind the region's modern struggles, revolutions, and relationship with Western powers.
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