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16%OFFLeila Tarazi Fawaz - A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War - 9780674735491 - V9780674735491
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A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War

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Description for A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hardback. A century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East during those years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of those who endured this cataclysmic event, and their profound sense of sacrifices made in vain. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 808.

The Great War transformed the Middle East, bringing to an end four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Arab lands while giving rise to the Middle East as we know it today. A century later, the experiences of ordinary men and women during those calamitous years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of the civilians and soldiers who endured this cataclysmic event.

Among those who suffered were the people of Greater Syria—comprising modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine—as well as the people of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
807g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674735491
SKU
V9780674735491
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About Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Leila Tarazi Fawaz is Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University.

Reviews for A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
A detailed account of the political and cultural events that occurred in the Middle East just before and during World War I. It concerns the way in which Arabs were caught up in Europe’s first major war of the twentieth century, and how this proved to be a turning point in Middle Eastern history, but one not of the Arab ... Read more

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