TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Bernard
TI  - The Middle East: a brief history of the last 2,000 years 
SN  - 0684832801
AV  - DS62 .L594 1997
U1  - 956 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Touchstone
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-396) and index; Antecedents -- Before Christianity -- Before Islam -- The dawn and noon of islam -- Origins -- The 'Abbasid caliphate -- The coming of the steppe peoples -- The Mongol aftermath -- The gunpowder empires -- Cross-sections -- The state -- The economy -- The elites -- The commonalty -- Religion and law -- Culture -- The challenge of modernity -- Challenge -- Change -- Response and reaction -- New ideas -- From war to war -- From freedom to freedom
ER  -