First published in 1962, many of the problems in this book started as examination questions in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, which is taken at the end of the second year at Cambridge. They have suffered some changes since then, and have been supplemented by specially invented problems, but the ...
A century ago, as World War I got underway, the Middle East was dominated, as it had been for centuries, by the Ottoman Empire. This revised edition traces those changes and the ensuing history of the region through the rest of the twentieth century. It helps readers to understand its history and the way it affects present-day events.
