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The Arabs
by Peter Mansfield
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140220674
- ISBN 13
- 9780140220674
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Penguin Books, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 576 pages, with index - "a concise and authoritative general introduction - social, political and historical - to the modern Arab world" first published 1976. Has Postscript (1980), two-page map, country profiles. A Pelican Book. Trade paperback, wraps creased, wear to corners and edges, edges and page margins tan from age, binding tight. Margin brackets and/or underscoring on approximately 25 pages.
Synopsis
Peter Mansfield (1928–1996) corresponded regularly for the Financial Times , Economist , and London Sunday Times on Middle Eastern affairs. The author and editor of numerous works, he is best known for his comprehensive study The Arabs .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ALD-89
- Title
- The Arabs
- Author
- Peter Mansfield
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140220674
- ISBN 13
- 9780140220674
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- PETER MANSFIELD, ARAB NATIONALISM, OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle East;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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