Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. is professor emeritus of Middle East history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Modern Egypt: Foundation of a Nation-State and the recipient of the Amoco Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching and the 2000 Middle East Studies Association Mentoring Award.
Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University. He is the author of several books, including America's Palestine and Islamic Fundamentalism.
"Our students and faculty alike have found this to be a
well-organized, comprehensive, balanced, and exceptionally readable
textbook. The authors blend significant historical detail with
timely political analysis in a cogent style that is compelling and
lucid. The addition of frequent biographical sketches and side-bars
on major events or political terms bring additional features that
make this a compelling and one of a kind introduction to the Middle
East."
--Donald Wagner, North Park University, Chicago
"This review and update of A Concise History of the Middle East
makes it once again the premier text for the study of the Middle
East. Goldschmidt and Davidson's well-written and solidly argued
analyses of the most important and crucial developments of Middle
Eastern history and politics ... could not be timelier. ... It will
be a favorite of students and professors alike."
--Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
"This is a text that breathes life into the history it presents.
The authors both care deeply about the region--and both recognize
the responsibility of their American readers (their primary
readers) to understand, and in a general sense sympathize, with the
life struggles of the people whose history they present--and whose
history has become increasingly intertwined with American global
interests, often times, as they recognize and relate, to the
detriment of people in the Middle East. The authors are not afraid
to spell out these complexities in a style that is at once
accessible and gently provocative. This is a text with
personality."
--Joel Gordon, University of Arkansas
"As someone who has encountered the run of good, fair and middling
texts on the Middle East, I can only offer unmixed praise for the
new edition of "A Concise History of the Middle East" by Art
Goldschmidt and Lawrence Davidson. Their narrative of the region's
quite long history, too often opaque to Westerners, is sparklingly
clear and straightforward for even the 'general reader'. They
meticulously avoid bias, especially when they explore the
tumultuous factors of modernization and westernization in battle
against residual forces of ethno-cultural traditionalism.
Throughout their remarkable text, they balance a clear treatment of
politics and diplomacy, familiar from earlier generations of
scholarship with insights into the region's historically evolving
norms of society and culture."
--Mark Seifter, Lehigh Carbon Community College
"This review and update of "A Concise History of the Middle East"
makes it once again the premier text for the study of the Middle
East. Goldschmidt and Davidson's well-written and solidly argued
analyses of the most important and crucial developments of Middle
Eastern history and politics ... could not be timelier. ... It will
be a favorite of students and professors alike."
--Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
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