Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
ISBN 10: 0393058492 ISBN 13: 9780393058499
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1.
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Publicado por John Murray, 2004
ISBN 10: 071956171X ISBN 13: 9780719561719
Librería: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: Good. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings and stamps inside. All orders are dispatched within one working day from our UK warehouse. We've been selling books online since 2004! We have over 750,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719555833 ISBN 13: 9780719555831
Librería: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
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Publicado por W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0393058492 ISBN 13: 9780393058499
Librería: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First American Edition. First American Edition, stated. Hard cover binding, 506 pp. "In Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East, John Keay, as his subtitle promises, wants to answer the big question, about why the Middle East has produced so much conflict?and been at the receiving end of so much. His scope is impressive: he ranges from the dying Ottoman Empire before the First World War to the emergence of a new Egypt under Gamel Abdel Nasser after the Second. And he brings in wonderful characters? Lawrence of Arabia, of course, but also figures like the civil engineer who became the biggest contractor in Iraq and married one of two identical twin sisters, though no one ever knew which. Keay, the author of several books on the British Empire, tells a good story."(NYTimes). New in dustjacket.
Publicado por W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0393058492 ISBN 13: 9780393058499
Librería: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First American Edition. First American Edition, stated. Hard cover binding, 506 pp. "In Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East, John Keay, as his subtitle promises, wants to answer the big question, about why the Middle East has produced so much conflict?and been at the receiving end of so much. His scope is impressive: he ranges from the dying Ottoman Empire before the First World War to the emergence of a new Egypt under Gamel Abdel Nasser after the Second. And he brings in wonderful characters? Lawrence of Arabia, of course, but also figures like the civil engineer who became the biggest contractor in Iraq and married one of two identical twin sisters, though no one ever knew which. Keay, the author of several books on the British Empire, tells a good story."(NYTimes). New in dustjacket.
Publicado por W. W. Norton & Company, 1980
ISBN 10: 0393335089 ISBN 13: 9780393335088
Librería: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New.
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Publicado por John Murray, Uk, 2011
Librería: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nueva Zelanda
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 506 pages. ex library -slight canting to spine.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
Librería: kellow books, Chipping norton, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 506 pages of how Western Powers have plunged the region into crises through their intervention over the years Book and Jacket both fine.
Publicado por The Folio Society, 2016
Librería: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition (Unstated). Foxing (light) to the exterior edge of pages only. Otherwise in good condition. No writing or major blemishes. Copyright page does not state edition or printing. Likely 1st edition judging from date. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
Publicado por Folio Society, London, 2016
Librería: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open and about new in glazed cloth with elaborate wrap-around decoration; in blue slipcase with smallish discoloration to one corner. (NF) ; 503 pages.
Publicado por Folio Society, 2016
Librería: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Reino Unido
Royal 8vo. [xxxii] + 503pp. + [i]. 52 ills. mainly from photos. Upper leading corner of p.487-8 sl. creased, otherwise very good in gilt & blue dec. boards, in slipcase as issued bumped with sl. wear to lower back corner. Additional postage may be necessary US$28.
Publicado por The Folio Society, London, United Kingdom, 2016
Librería: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio Society edition, first printing, 2016. First thus. No jacket as issued. With original slipcase. Foreword by Robert Fisk. Index. Illustrated. Blue slipcase is near fine with the odd small mark and the odd small bump/minor scratch. Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing/bumping to corners. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No internal faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Publicado por Folio Society,, London,, 2016
Librería: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Slip-Case. Large 8vo. pp xxix, 503. Handsomely bound in decorative cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt at the spine. First published in 2003 by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd in Great Britain and by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, in the United States. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. Fine in near fine slip-case. Sound and clean with faint shelf wear.
Publicado por Folio Society,, London,, 2016
Librería: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Slip-Case. Large 8vo. pp xxix, 503. Handsomely bound in decorative cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt at the spine. First published in 2003 by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd in Great Britain and by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, in the United States. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations. Fine in fine slip-case. .
Publicado por The Folio Society, 2016
Librería: Hall of Books, Shropshire, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Fine. First Folio Society hardback edition with a new introduction by Robert Fisk, 2016, in a slipcase with no dust jacket as issued. In overall fine, unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
Publicado por The Folio Society, 2016
Librería: Pudding Bag Books, Rutland, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Slipcase also as new , except for small blemish.
Publicado por Folio Society, London, 2016
Librería: Ardis Books, Fareham, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Fine. First Thus. 2016 First Thus. Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine slipcase. Introduced by Robert Fisk. Troubling, fascinating and accessible, this is an outstanding account of how the Middle East was shaped by Western interests. This edition features co.
Publicado por John Murray (2003), London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719555833 ISBN 13: 9780719555831
Librería: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A nice copy of this title.; xix, [1], 506, [1 (blank)] pages + plates. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 234 x 151mm. "The seeds of conflict throughout the Middle East were sown in the first 60 years of the 20th century. It was then that the Western powers - Britain, France and the USA - discovered the imperatives for intervention that have plunged the region into crisis ever since. It was then, too, that most of the region's modern-day states were created and their regimes forged; and then that their management by the West earned abiding resentment. 'Sowing the Wind' tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes. This is that rarest of works, a history with humour, an epic with attitude, a dirge that delights.;Here are unearthed a host of unregarded precedents, from the Gulf's first gusher to the first aerial assault on Baghdad, the first of Syria's innumerable coups, and the first terrorist outrages and suicide bombers. Pre-Balfour to post-Suez, the familiar landmarks loom afresh from the obscure antics of lobbyists and the agonizings of administrations.;Little known figures - junior officers, contractors, explorers, spies - contest the orthodoxies of Arabist giants like T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Glubb Pasha and Loy Henderson. The generals - Townshend and Allenby, Gouraud and Catroux, Wavell and Spears, Eisenhower and Patten - mingle memorably with maverick travellers and femmes both fatales and formidables. Four Roosevelts juggle with the fate of nations. Authors as alien as E.M. Forster and Arthur Koestler add their testimony. And in Antonius and Weizmann, the Mufti and Begin, Arab is inexorably juxtaposed with Jew. Pertinent, scholarly and irreverent, 'Sowing the Wind' provides an ambitious insight into the making of the world's most fraught arena.".
Publicado por The Folio Society, London, 2016
25 x 17,5 cm. Condición: Wie neu. XXIII, 503 pages Original Pappband im Schuber; Innen wie außen unberührt. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt-John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS ist ein britischer Historiker, Journalist, Radiomoderator und Dozent, der sich auf populäre Geschichte Indiens, des Fernen Ostens und Chinas spezialisiert hat, oft mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf deren Kolonialisierung und Erforschung durch Europäer. Wikipedia (Englisch) --- Original cardboard binding in the slipcase; Untouched inside and out. John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans. In particular, he is widely seen as a pre-eminent historian of British India. He is known both for stylistic flair and meticulous research into archival primary sources, including centuries-old unpublished sources. The author of some twenty-five books, he also writes regularly for a number of prominent publications in Britain and Asia. He began his career with The Economist. He has received several major honours including the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal. In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate, presented by Princess Anne, from the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. The Economist has called him "a gifted non-academic historian", the Yorkshire Post has called him "one of our most outstanding historians", The Independent has called his writing "exquisite" and The Guardian has described his historical analysis as "forensic" and his writing as "restrained yet powerful". He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Keay lives in both Edinburgh and in Argyll in the West Highlands of Scotland and travels widely. Wikipedia UG141 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1325.