{"id":46068,"date":"2025-04-25T21:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46068"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:24:39","slug":"t-g-fraser-contested-lands-a-history-of-the-middle-east-since-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46068","title":{"rendered":"T.G. Fraser, \u201eContested Lands: A History of the Middle East since the First World War\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u2018<em>Contested Lands<\/em> is a thorough and, indeed, riveting account of the major historical developments in the Middle East following World War I. Using incisive language, T.G. Fraser looks at both the local and the global levels to develop a clear picture of a region that so much scholarship has tended to essentialise.\u2019<\/strong><br><em>Oxford Middle East Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018A welcome addition to the literature on Middle East history and will serve as an introductory volume for undergraduate students and general readers seeking to learn more about the region\u2019s history and the role Western countries have played in it.\u2019<\/strong><br><em>Manara Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fully updated to cover the current Israel-Palestine war<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an accessible survey of the last century, <em>Contested Lands<\/em> tells the story of the Middle East since the First World War: what happened, why, and what it all means today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a focus on the many conflicts in the region over the last one hundred years, T. G. Fraser analyses the faultlines of the tension: the damaging legacies of imperialism; the creation of the State of Israel; the competition between secular, autocratic rulers and emerging democratic and theocratic forces; and the rise \u2013 and fall \u2013 of Arab nationalism in the face of fraying regional alliances and the Islamic revival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against this backdrop comes the twenty-first century, marked first by the tragedy of 9\/11, then the \u2018Arab Spring\u2019, Syria\u2019s civil war and now the Israel-Palestine conflict. And in the midst of it all, complex social and economic change has transformed the region. In Contested Lands, T. G. Fraser untangles the threads of history in the Middle East and, in doing so, weaves a detailed and insightful picture of a troubled region and why its heritage remains important today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T.G. 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