Short Synopsis
In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time.

Full Synopsis
In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the rules for the rest of the world. Today, however, the Arab world's sense of subjection to external powers carries vast consequences for both the region and Westerners who attempt to control it.

Updated with a new epilogue, The Arabs is an invaluable, groundbreaking work of history.

"Rogan eruditely furnishes Western readers with a background to current events." ---Booklist

"A straightforward, careful primer on Arab political history…" ---Kirkus

"Derek Perkins's powerful narration of Oxford historian Eugene Rogan's sweeping history of the Arab peoples and nations is audio listening at its very best." ---AudioFile

"[E]loquent, and compulsively readable." ---The Guardian

"[An] exemplary history." ---The Economist

"[Rogan's] rehearsal of recent Middle East history is impeccable." ---The UK Times

"Narrator Derek Perkins's strong performance is a pleasure to hear. . . . An excellent choice for those seeking greater insight into the Arab world." ---Library Journal Audio Review

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