The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
Bernard Lewis
#2560 of 3,809 books · #847 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1996).
A 2000-year history of a region stretching from Libya to Central Asia; concludes with the effects of the Gulf War.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780684807126
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1996)
Other awarded books from Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
If you liked The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, you could also like these
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922
David Fromkin
0 wins · 11 score
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk
0 wins · 4 score
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Sean McMeekin
0 wins · 2 score
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
1 win · 12 score
Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East
Donald Neff
0 wins · 4 score
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Michael B. Oren
1 win · 8 score
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215
David Levering Lewis
0 wins · 1 score
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F. Worth
0 wins · 3 score
The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Christopher de Bellaigue
0 wins · 5 score
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
1 win · 18 score
The Making of the Middle Sea
Cyprian Broodbank
1 win · 8 score
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch
1 win · 8 score
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Rashid Khalidi
0 wins · 3 score
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
0 wins · 4 score
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Kim Ghattas
0 wins · 3 score
Similar Topics
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922
David Fromkin
0 wins · 11 score
Middle East history
Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (about Gertrude Bell)
Georgina Howell
0 wins · 4 score
Middle East history
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Anthony Swofford
0 wins · 3 score
Gulf WarThe Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Rashid Khalidi
0 wins · 3 score
Middle East history