Middle East patterns : places, peoples, and politics /
Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive general geography of the Middle East is critical reading for all students of the region's geography, regional history, politics, comparative governments, and development economics.
| Основен автор: | Held, Colbert C. |
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| Други автори: | Cummings, John Thomas., Cotter, John V. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boulder, CO :
Westview Press,
℗♭2011.
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| Издание: | 5th ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=421185 |
Съдържание:
- 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
- Oman and Yemen: the southern fringe
- Egypt: a river and a people
- Turkey: bridgeland in Anatolia
- Iran: complex republic on the plateau
- Glossary
- Geological time chart.