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  • A History
  • Written by: Eugene Rogan
  • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
  • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the rules for the rest of the world. Today, however, the Arab world's sense of subjection to external powers carries vast consequences for both the region and Westerners who attempt to control it.

Updated with a new epilogue, The Arabs is an invaluable, groundbreaking work of history.

©2009 Eugene Rogan; revised introduction and postscript copyright 2016 by Eugene Rogan (P)2016 Tantor
Politics & Government Middle East Russia Wars & Conflicts Africa World Great Britain United States Iraq History
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"Rogan eruditely furnishes Western readers with a background to current events." ( Booklist)

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Super informative, interesting, and enjoyable

I was expected this book to be long dense and boring, but really it was captivating. It also explains why Palestine is involved in everything today.

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Very interesting

Lovely written and read with a very wide scope, and hilariously biased with a complete lack of self awareness regarding said bias.

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