Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War

ISBN-13: 9780863569500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 384 str.

Ian Rutledge

Opis

A lively, sweeping account of how a once great Islamic civilisation was gradually defeated by European powers.

O autorze

Ian Rutledge is an economist and historian. He earned his PhD in Economic History from the University of Cambridge and has taught at the Universities of London and Sheffield, and for the Workers' Educational Association. An Arabist who has studied the language for over two decades, Rutledge has devoted the past two decades to researching the economic and political history of the Middle East and North Africa. His other publications include the critically acclaimed Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921.