Notes on a Century Reflections of a Middle East Historian

Name: Notes on a Century Reflections of a Middle East Historian
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ISBN: 9780670023530

ISBN-10: 0670023531

ISBN-13: 9780670023530

Edition: 2012

Authors: Buntzie Ellis Churchill, Bernard Lewis

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary lifeAfter September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming "clash of civilizations," a term he coined in 1957, and has led an amazing life, as much a political actor as a scholar of the Middle East. In this witty memoir he reflects on the events that have transformed the region since World War II, up through the Arab Spring.A pathbreaking scholar with command of a dozen languages, Lewis has advised…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Early Days



The War Years



In the Ottoman Archives



Cultural Diplomacy



Why Study History?



Episodes in an Academic Life



Crossing the Atlantic



The Neighborhood



The Clash of Civilizations



Orientalism and the Cult of Right Thinking



Judgment in Paris



Writing and Rewriting History



Politics and the Iraq War


In Sum



The Dirge



Honors and Publications


Index