The Clash of Cultures in the Near East -- Empire Builders, Culture Makers, and Culture Imprinters -- Shelley and the Near East -- Ibn Khaldun on Roman History -- The Ottoman Economic Legacy -- The Greeks in the Middle East -- The Costs of the French Revolution -- The Struggle for Linguistic Hegemony, 1780-1980 -- The Change in Western Perceptions of the Orient.
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"Charles Issawi's collection of essays, Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts, has been written in the belief that a study of the past encounters and conflicts between the world's major cultures can shed light on their nature and importance. Though the emphasis is on the Middle East, the subjects covered here range in scope from the great ancient civilizations to Shelley's passion for the Middle East, from the failures of the Greeks as empire builders to the predominance of English as an international language today. Other essays examine either the way in which certain cultures were formed, or the effects of the direct control of one culture over another, or cross-cultural perceptions, most notably the dramatic change in the Western perception of the Orient between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.