عنوان

Middle East patterns

9780813344010 (alk. paper)

2-14381

انگلیسی

Middle East patterns

: places, peoples, and politics

/ Colbert C. Held and John Thomas Cummings ; cartography by John V. Cotter.

5th ed.

Boulder, CO :

Westview Press,

2011.

xxiii, 659 p. :

ill., maps ;

26 cm.

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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Middle East.

Middle East, Geography.

Middle East, Social conditions.

Middle East, Politics and government.

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Held, Colbert C.

Cummings, John Thomas.

Cotter, John V.

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