01953nam a22002177a 4500 20211129092621.0 211129b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0719555833 AL 23 956.04 KEAS John Keay 10961 Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East London John Murray 2003 xviii,506 p. HB 24x16 cm. he Western powers--Britain, France and the USA--discovered the imperatives for intervention that have plunged the Middle East region into crisis ever since. It was then, too, that most of the region's modern-day states were created and their regimes forged; and then that their management by the West earned abiding resentment. Sowing the Wind tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes. This is that rarest of works, a history with humour, an epic with attitude, a dirge that delights. Here are unearthed a host of unregarded precedents, from the Gulf's first gusher to the first aerial assault on Baghdad, the first of Syria's innumerable coups, and the first terrorist outrages and suicide bombers. Little known figures--junior officers, contractors, explorers, spies--contest the orthodoxies of Arabist giants like T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Glubb Pasha and Loy Henders Four Roosevelts juggle with the fate of nations. Authors as alien as E.M. Forster and Arthur Koestler add their testimony. And in Antonius and Weizmann, the Mufti and Begin, Arab is inexorably juxtaposed with Jew. Pertinent, scholarly and irreverent, Sowing the Wind provides an ambitious insight into the making of the world's most fraught arena. History of Middle East 10957 Arab Israeli Conflict 10958 Politics and Government 10959 KEAY (John) 10960 ddc GF 220823 220823 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 956.04 KEAS GF03318 2021-11-29 00:00:00 2021-11-29 GF