To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. Years of tone-deaf US policies have left the region powerless to control its own destinyplaying into a longstanding sense of shame and impotence for a once-mighty people. In this definitive account, preeminent historian Eugene Rogan traces five centuries of Arab history, from the Ottoman conquests through the British and French colonial periods and up to the present age of unipolar American hegemony. The Arab world is now more acutely aware than ever of its own vulnerability, and this sense of subjection carries with it vast geopolitical consequences. Drawing from Arab sources little known to Western readers, Rogan’s The Arabs will transform our understanding of the past, present, and future of one of the world’s most tumultuous regions.

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英國曆史學傢，牛津大學聖安東尼學院院士、聖安東尼學院中東研究中心前主任，教授近現代中東史。他的作品《奧斯曼帝國晚期的國傢邊界》獲得瞭阿爾伯特•侯拉尼奬。《奧斯曼帝國的衰亡：一戰中東，1914-1920》已由廣西師範大學齣版社於2017年齣版。目前居住在牛津。