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Empires of the sand : the struggle for mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923

The authors "show how the Hashemites played a decisive role in shaping present Middle Eastern boundaries and in hastening the collapse of Ottoman rule."--Jacket

Print Book, English, 1999
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999