Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #344827 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review

"A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict is an excellent text and an indispensable addition to the study of Arab-Israeli affairs." — Caroline T. Marshall, James Madison University

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science
Concise yet comprehensive, this text provides balanced, impartial, well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab Israeli conflict.

From the Back Cover

This concise and comprehensive text presents balanced, impartial, and well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors identify and examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the past century as well as examining the latest developments in the Middle East, including the most up-to-date assessment of the course of the peace process, as well as its unraveling. A new Epilogue covers the most recent events, including analysis of the Israeli Security Fence.

Customer Reviews

Awesome concise review
This book really summarizes the issues. I took several classes in the Spring of 06 on the Israeli-Arab conflict, and this was one of the best I read. Straight to the point, gives the important facts, and not biased.

reader
For anyone interested in but unfamiliar with the detailed history and politics underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict, this thorough, scholarly and ambitious book is an excellent resource. If you aren't looking for all the details contained in a university textbook (complete with helpful maps and charts), you need not look further than the authors' Introduction, which presents an impressive and objective (rare, with this subject matter) overview of the multi-faceted considerations at play. If you are interested in the gritty details, this book is an unparalleled, concise, factual resource that must be on your shelf.

Nice introduction to subject but little detail
A concise history of the Arab Israeli Conflict 4th Ed. This book
is 379 pages published by Pearson Education. This details info about Islam and Judaisim and moves very fast into the 20th century where the crux of the conflict occured. It explains in detail but at the same time in general themes if that is possible. It is not as detailed as some books I have seen but it will do the reader very nicely who wants to go deeper than the surface about the inticacies of this conflict. The author does incorporate a stunning photo on the cover with the view of the Wailing Wall and Dome of the Rock. While documents are provided at the end of the chapters, there are some that I feel are essential to look at but are left out. While its a good book I am goign to rate this one average because I know of a much better book (Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by C.D. Smith).