Desert kingdoms to global powers the rise of the Arab Gulf by Miller, Rory 1971-

Headlines in history the 1900s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Law of acceleration -- 1900: Promise of a new century -- Votes for women -- Revolution ravages Mexico -- Chapter 2 -- Coming of world war I -- In the trenches of world war I -- Bolsheviks take power -- Wilson's fourteen points -- Chapter 3 -- Treaty of versailles -- Revolution in physics -- Great depression: Unemployment -- Chapter 4 -- Mussolini defines totalitarianism -- Hitler -- Stalin starves ukraine -- Stalin's great terror -- New deal: Middle way -- Chapter 5 -- Coming of the pacific war -- Peasant revolution in China -- Settling scores in a chinese village, 1945 -- Nonviolence on trail: Gandhi responds to world war II -- Chapter 6 -- Battle of britain -- Holocaust: Revolution -- Last letter from stalingrad -- Einstein alerts Roosevelt about nuclear weaponry -- Truman drops the bomb -- Chapter 7 -- Who started the cold war -- 1950's: Emergence of the western youth culture -- President Eisenhower warns of the military industrial complex -- Eyeball to eyeball: Cuban missile crisis -- Man lands on the moon -- Chapter 8 -- Martin Luther King Jr. goes to jail -- "Gotta be this or that": End of colonialism -- Cultural revolution convulses China -- Chairman mao speaks -- Tet and the Vietnam war -- Crises of October 1973: Middle east conflict, oil, and watergate -- Islam against the west -- Chapter 9 -- Fall of communism -- President Vaclav Havel's new year's day address, 1990 -- After apartheid -- Technological revolution.…”

40 years of the adelphi papers Strategic and international relations in the Cold War an post Cold War worlds

Table of Contents: “…Israel and the Arab world: the crisis of 1967 -- Arms & security: the Egypt-Israel case -- The Arab-Israel War, October 1973 background and events -- The Arab-Israeli dispute: great power behaviour -- The Soviet Union and the PLO -- A Palestinian state? …”