Search Results: History: Middle East from The Owl at the Bridge

Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984. Periodical. 56 p., illus. (some color), map; 28 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v. 41 no. 4, spring 1984. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns great examples of Ancient Middle East art. Stock#40232. Vg/soft cover.

Princeton University Press, 1981. Anderson "shows that by 1950 a de facto coalition of government agencies and oil companies coalesced around the rapid developmnet of Saudi oil." ISBN (10): 0691046794. Hard Cover. xiii, 259 pages; 23 cm. Red-ink marginal marks in the first few pages, otherwise clean. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU249/h.

Two bookseller catalogues listing books on Eastern lands. Salloch, Orientalia, 72 pages, 235 items, xvi plates with 25 illustrations plus 2; Brill, Again the East, 1660 items, 26 illus. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0263.

NY, Columbia University Press, 1979. Hard Cover. xi, 170 p.; 24 cm. Contents: The inherited foreign policy crisis --The insufficiency of military containment --Avoiding humiliation in Indochina --The Middle East and the reassertion of American competence abroad --The anachronism of conservative realpolitik --The Kissinger contribution. ISBN: (10) 0231042647. Stock#NEU189. Good+, some red ink marginal notes

NY, Harper & Row, ©1983. Hard Cover. xxi, 457 p., [8] p. of plates, illus., ports.; 25 cm. McGhee "was a career diplomat in the United States foreign service. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey in 1952-1953 and U.S. Ambassador to West Germany in 1963-1968." ISBN (10) 0060390255. Stock#NEU180. Vg/ dj vg.

[NY, Council on Foreign Relations] 2003. Soft Cover. iv, 186 p.; 25 cm. Reflecting the U.S. unilateral war, the issue contains: Iraq and the Arab's Future; Palestine, Iraq, and US Strategy; If Saddam Strikes Back; Iran's Crumbling Revolution; Loving and Hating America. Stock#47278. Vg / journal.

Oxford UP, 2000. Hard Cover. viii p., 4 maps, 232 p., index, plates. "Through a close and critical reading of biblical texts, ancient history, and recent archeological discoveries, Steven L. McKenzie concludes that David was 'a Middle Eastern despot of a familiar type'. While instituting a full-blown Middle Eastern monarchy, David was an aggressive leader, a devious politician, and a ruthless war chief. Throughout his scandalous reign, important figures who stood in his way died at convenient times, under questionable circumstances. Even his own sons were not spared." Dj; fine. stock#101342.

Reprinted for private circulation from Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. III No. 1, January 1944. Soft Cover. Pp. 47-72, [22] p. of illus., IX plates; 24 cm. Includes The Pottery of the Baghouz Occurrence on the Euphrates; Description of the Flint Artifacts of the Baghouz Occurrence; A Repertoire of the Samarran Painted Pottery Style; Outline of System Used in Classifying the Samarran Motifs. Stapled without wrappers; good+. Stock#28572.

Washington, American University, 1985.. Hard Cover. xxii, 542 p., index, illus., charts; 24 cm. Foreign Area Studies, The American University. 'Research completed August 1984.'' for the U.S. Army. The countries the Army was interested in in 1984 were: Kuqait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Stock# 31,716. VG/ no dj as issued..

Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1996. Hard Cover. xxi, 64 p. Translated from the Arabic and with an Introduction by Khaled Mattawa. Born in Iraq, the poet went into exile in Poland in 1976. Fine/dj fine. 101705.

N.Y., Grove, 1960. Soft Cover. xv, 303 p., maps,48 pages of illustrations, 25.5 cm. Gleuck "discovered, excavated, and mapped hundreds of lost settlements in the Israeli desert known as Negev." Stock# 34,281. Good+, covers soiled/ paper.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 'First American Printing'. Hard Cover. Chapters include Discovery and Wild Surmise; The Bible and New Research; Winckler Digs in Boghazköy; On the Art of Deciphering; Did the Hittites Speak Hittite? The Kings of Hattusas; The Science of Historical Dating; The Battle of Kadesh; The Finds on the Black Mountain; Asitawandas Speaks; chronological table & bibliography. xxi, [1], 281, x p., index, text illus., maps, 48 plates, 22 cm.; red cloth boards stamped in silver, no dj; owner's names on flyleaf; good+. 31902.

Princeton, Van Nostrand, 1966. Soft Cover. x, 278 p. illus., maps, 23 cm. Kitti concentrates on the modern era. Includes Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Stock# 31,724. Good+/ soft cover.

Providence & NY, Brown University & NYU Art Bulletin, 1924. Periodical. in Art Bulletin VII: 2, December 1924, pages [35]-50; 21 plates numbered xx-xl; 31 cm. Traces Middle Eastern sources of Western medieval art. Stock#32437. Covers well browned, text good.

NY, Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, 1981. Hard Cover. 479 p., [32] p. of plates, illus.; 25 cm. "The Suez Crisis of 1956 saw Israel, France, and Britain in collusion to overthrow the Nasser regime…prompted Eisenhower's showdown against his longtime allies." ISBN(10): 0671410105. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU275.

NY & London, Norton [c1998]. 13th edition. Soft Cover. xvii, 501-1123, A37 p., illus., maps, index; 23.5 cm. Contents: A Century of Crisis for Early-modern Europe (c. 1560-c. 1660); The Economy and Society of Early-modern Europe; The Age of Absolutism (1660-1789); The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; The French Revolution; The Industrial Revolution; Consequences of industrialization: Urbanization and Class Consciousness (1800-1850); The Rise of Liberalism (1815-1870); Nationalism and Nation-building (1815-1870); The West at the World’s Center; International Industrialization and Imperialism (1870-1914); The Middle Class Challenged; A Delicate Equilibrium (1870-1914); The First World War; Turmoil Between the Wars; The Second World War; The Emergence of a World Civilization; The Postwar Years: Rivalry and Recovery; Fragmentation and Change: the End of Postwar Certainties; Problems of World Civilization. Instructor's copy. Stock#43826… Read More