The Eastern Question: A Geopolitical History in 108 Maps & Drawings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692308400)

The current conflicts in the Middle East are present-day manifestations of geopolitical dynamics that have been active in the historical process from its beginning. In 108 maps and drawings, The Eastern Question looks at these dynamics through a geopolitical lens with a scope of three millennia, from the days of the Persians and Alexander the Great to todays headlines. The drawings are historical political cartoons; the maps ground the reader in the geography of time and place. In the 19th century, the term the Eastern Question referred to the problem posed by the impending dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the fall of which in the second decade of the 20th engendered the modern muddle of the Middle East in the 21st. In a larger sense the East has always been a question for the West, for the simple reason thats where the trouble comes from: Huns, Goths, Arabs, Mongols, Turks, Russians, Sovietsto now a less well-defined, non-linear, and asymmetric trouble. As the West declines relatively and the East rises, seemingly new questions are asked that are in fact old ones.

Author: Ted Danforth
ISBN-10: 0692308407
ISBN-13: 9780692308400
Publisher: Anekdota
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/09/2015
Shelf Awareness 11/17/2015