This book sets out the main political, economic and social developments in Ireland since the 1922 treaty. It explains the troubles in their context and examines the underlying tensions which led to prolonged violence after relative civil peace.
An accessible, yet comprehensive survey of the last century, Contested Lands tells the story of the Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.
The Middle East has rarely been absent from the world's media since the end of World War 2. As the Arab-Israeli dispute came to dominate Middle East... Læs mere