TY - BOOK AU - Hourani, Albert TI - A History of the Arab Peoples / SN - 9780446393928 U1 - 909.04927 PY - 1991/// CY - New York : PB - Warner Books, KW - Arabs KW - History KW - Middle East N1 - Includes bibliography (p. 500-529) and index; Part I. The making of a world (seventh-tenth century). 1. A new power in an old world 2. The formation of an empire 3. The formation of a society 4. The articulation of Islam Part II. Arab Muslim societies (eleventh-fifteenth century). 5. The Arab Muslim world 6. The countryside 7. The life of cities 8. Cities and their rulers 9. Ways of Islam 10. The culture of the lama 11. Divergent paths of thought 12. The culture of courts and people Part III. The Ottoman age (sixteenth-eighteenth century). 13. The Ottoman empire 14. Ottoman societies 15. The changing balance of power in the eighteenth century Part IV. The age of European empires (1800-1939). 16. European power and reforming governments (1800-1860) 17. European empires and dominant elites (1860-1914) 18. The culture of imperialism and reform 19. The climax of European power (1914-1939) 20. Changing ways of life and thought (1914-1939) Part V. The age of nation-states (since 1939). 21. The end of the empires (1939-1962) 22. Changing societies (1940s and 1950s) 23. National culture (1940s and 1950s) 24. The climax of Arabism (1950s and 1960s) 25. Arab unity and disunity (since 1967) 26. A disturbance of spirits (since 1967) N2 - Summary: Hourani covers not only political history, but also culture, society, economy and thought. This edition includes events such as the crisis in Iraq, the civil war in Algeria and the aftermath of September 11th ER -