Middle East Patterns
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-8220-3 (ISBN)
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This is the second edition of a comprehensive study of the Middle East from both a topical and a country-by-country regional perspective. Discussion of the physical environment creates the context for a depiction of cultural-political and geographical patterns which are the essence of the volume. "Then and now" pairs of photographs illustrate the developments of recent decades, and updated tables, graphs and maps are also included.
Colbert C. Held is Retired Diplomat-in-Residence at Baylor University. He served for fifteen years as a Foreign Service Officer with assignments in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, as well as successive temporary missions in every country in the Middle East.
Part 1 Physical and cultural geography: tricontinental junction - an introduction; patterns of time - historical-geographical foundations; the lands and the waters; the skies and the winds - climate; soils, vegetation and animal life; patterns of people and cultures; the desert and the sown - land use; riches beneath the earth; manufacturing and transportation; where people congregate; the earth and the State; geopolitics. Part 2 Regional geography: Syria - Middle-East heartland; Lebanon and Cyprus - a mountain and an island; Jordan - the land beyond; Israel and occupied territories - "Palestine" or "Eretz Yisrael"?; Iraq - modern Mesopotamia; Saudi Arabia - development in the desert; the Gulf and its oil states; Oman and Yemen - the southern fringe; Egypt - a river and a people; Turkey - bridgeland in Anatolia; Iran - new republic on the plateau.
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Naher Osten |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8133-8220-3 / 0813382203 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8133-8220-3 / 9780813382203 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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