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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Dresch |
ISBN: | 0521790921 9780521790925 052179482X 9780521794824 |
OCLC Number: | 43657092 |
Description: | xviii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Turkey, Britain and Imam Yahya: the years around 1900. Imperial divisions. Premodern Yemen. Political connections. Forms of life -- 2. Yahya and the British: 1918-1948. Control of Yemen. Aden's hinterland and Hadramawt. A geographical intersection. The dynastic state. Modernist contradictions. The coup of 1948 -- 3. A new form of politics: the 1950s. Changes in the South. The Aden hinterland. Ahmad's domain. The new politics. Cairo and Sanaa. Constitutions and revolution -- 4. Revolutions and civil wars: the 1960s. Revolution in the North. Armed struggle in the South. Aden as political focus. 'Abd al-Nasir and Yemen. The end of the British in the South. The end of the Egyptians in the North. Consolidation of two states. |
Responsibility: | Paul Dresch. |
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Fast-moving and accessible, Paul Dresch's history describes the major events which have taken place in Yemen over the last century, through the colonial encounter, civil war and finally to a unified independent state. This is a book for anyone interested in discovering more about a little-known slice of Arab history.
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'If you have time to read a single book on Yemen's recent past, Paul Dresch's A History of Modern Yemen is the one for you.' American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
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