Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

This history follows Western intervention in the Middle East from the late Ottoman years through the Suez Crisis, roughly 1900 to 1960. Keay traces how Britain, France, and later the United States carved states from former Ottoman lands, backed monarchies and coups, and pursued oil, routes, and prestige. Episodes include the Dinshawai incident in Egypt, the First World War settlements, mandate rule in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria, T.E. Lawrence, the 1953 intervention in Iran, and Nasser's challenge at Suez. The book is a narrative of imperial management and its aftereffects, not a comprehensive history of every local society in the region.

Bound in blue cloth, blocked and printed with a wrap-around design in gold and black.