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The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character... -
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan 9780465097425
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €17.74By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the... -
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51*FULLY UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016'Truly essential' Simon Sebag MontefioreThe final destruction of the... -
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World Eugene Rogan 9781802063202
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of... -
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Eugene Rogan 9781541604278
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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan 9780241646908
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.35'A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres-much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East' - Simon Sebag Montefiore'A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and... -
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict Ilan Pappe 9780861549719
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's "new... -
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS... -
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.61'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs Marc David Baer 9781473695740
Booksplease Price: €9.29Shortlisted for the Wolfson History PrizeA Sunday Times Paperback of the YearThe Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality... -
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921 by Eugene L. Rogan 9780521663120
RRP: €135.66Booksplease Price: €131.44Until the mid-nineteenth century, Transjordan was a frontier region of the Ottoman province of Syria. In a time of European challenges to Ottoman integrity, the region's strategic location, linking... -
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921 by Eugene L. Rogan 9780521892230
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €61.42Until the mid-nineteenth century, Transjordan was a frontier region of the Ottoman province of Syria. In a time of European challenges to Ottoman integrity, the region's strategic location, linking... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51WINNER OF THE BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe... -
A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948 by James Barr 9780393344257
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.79In the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region... -
Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East by Peter Hill 9780861547364
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.29'An outstanding intellectual biography.' Eugene Rogan In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a... -
State-Building in the Middle East and North Africa: One Hundred Years of Nationalism, Religion and Politics Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou 9780755601400
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €17.55Why have state-building projects across the MENA region proven to be so difficult for so long? Following the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, the countries of the region began a violent... -
Worlds of Islam: A Global History by James McDougall 9780241528488
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.49'A brilliant and captivating work ... There is simply no better book on Islam in history’ Eugene RoganFrom its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam,... -
A Short History of Islamic Thought by Fitzroy Morrissey
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Fitzroy Morrissey's brilliant guide to Islamic thought - from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day. 'A magisterial accomplishment' Professor Eugene Rogan 'The best guide to... -
The Ottomans Diana Darke 9780500298183
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes the reader with fascinating facts and points of... -
Iraq: People, History, Politics by Gareth Stansfield 9780745649290
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €63.43Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First... -
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World by Alex Rowell 9781398514218
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.68'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History... -
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World by Alex Rowell 9781398514249
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History... -
King of Kings by Scott Anderson 9781529155266
Booksplease Price: €32.17THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris... a good place to start for anyone seeking to understand... -
The Contemporary Middle East: A Westview Reader Karl Yambert 9780813348391
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37The Contemporary Middle East provides an accessible introduction to the region's most pressing concerns and enduring conflicts. It includes provocative contributions by an impressive array of leading... -
The Fourth Ordeal: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1968-2018 by Victor J. Willi
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €88.12The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with leaders, rank-and-file members and dissidents, as... -
Arab Youth: Social Mobilization in Times of Risk by Samir Khalaf 9780863564574
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.05In 2011, thousands of Arab youth took to the streets to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the revolutionary uprisings, one auspicious feature... -
The Fourth Ordeal: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1968-2018 by Victor J. Willi 9781108822459
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €42.57The Fourth Ordeal tells the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s until 2018. Based on over 140 first-hand interviews with leaders, rank-and-file members and dissidents, as... -
Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept by Michael E. Bonine 9780804775267
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €86.56Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests-or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and... -
A Concise History of the Middle East Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. 9780367513436
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €38.31A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern... -
A Concise History of the Middle East Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. 9780367513412
RRP: €166.60Booksplease Price: €146.67A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern... -
The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit Eamonn Gearon 9781805264255
Booksplease Price: €28.48A fascinating study of the British Empire's Middle Eastern intelligence section during the First World War, drawing on government files and secret publications. In the midst of the First World War,... -
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Philip Mansel
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.11A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its... -
Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism by Guillemette Crouzet
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the... -
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.84A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that... -
Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism by Guillemette Crouzet 9780228014058
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €98.65The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the... -
You Can't Hide the Sun: A Journey through Palestine by John McCarthy
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58"Fascinating and timely" Jeremy BowenHeld hostage for many years by terrorists in Lebanon, John McCarthy is all too familiar with the pain and injustice of being denied your home. Determined to... -
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Neurophilosophy of History and the Future of Civilisation by Nayef Al-Rodhan 9780718895716
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.12In Sustainable History and Human Dignity, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan shows that it is the human quest for sustainable governance, balancing the ever-present tension between nine human dignity needs... -
Iraq's Democratic Moment by Hadid Foulath
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €39.08In 1936, a coup d'etat brought the nationalist forces to power amid great public jubilation, only for the coup to fail when its leaders fell out among themselves. In 1941, the Iraqi army went to war... -
The Golden Throne: The Rule of Suleyman the Magnificent Christopher de Bellaigue 9781847927422
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.78Istanbul, 1537. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at his personal apogee and the pinnacle of world power. With both Christianity and Islam riven by schism, he is mighty enough to maul different... -
The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East by Matteo Legrenzi 9781784532369
Booksplease Price: €41.02The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), made up of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is one of the most resilient sub-regional organizations in the world, and...