Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-453) and index.
Contents
Confrontation with modernity -- Change without benefit -- In peril of disintegration -- Arab regions of the Ottoman Empire -- World War I in the Middle East -- Kemal Ataturk and the Turkish Nationalist movement -- Palestine to 1945 -- The Arab region : 1914-1940 -- Toward independence -- Arab nationalism -- Iran -- Reoccupation -- Effective defiance -- Apparent freedom -- The challenge of freedom after 1958.