TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Bernard
TI  - The Middle East: a brief history of the last 2,000 years 
SN  - 0684807126
AV  - 439 DS 62 L594m 1996
U1  - 956 
PY  - 1996///, c1995
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Civilización antigua
KW  - Historia antigua
KW  - Civilización cristiana
KW  - Civilización islámica
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Medio Oriente
KW  - Civilización
KW  - Antiguedades
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-396) and index; Antecedents -- Before Christianity -- Before Islam -- The dawn and noon of islam -- Origins -- The 'Abbasid caliphate -- The coming of the steppe peoples -- The Mongol aftermath -- The gunpowder empires -- Cross-sections -- The state -- The economy -- The elites -- The commonalty -- Religion and law -- Culture -- The challenge of modernity -- Challenge -- Change -- Response and reaction -- New ideas -- From war to war -- From freedom to freedom
ER  -