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100 1  Danforth, Ted,|eauthor,|eillustrator. 
245 14 The Eastern question :|ba geopolitical history in 108 maps
       & drawings /|cby Ted Danforth. 
264  1 [Townshend, VT] :|bAnekdota, an imprint of Townshend House,
       |c©2015. 
300    xi, 245 pages :|bcolor illustrations, color maps ;|c22 x 
       28 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    The current conflicts in the Middle East are present-day 
       manifestations of geopolitical dynamics that have been 
       active in the historical process from its beginning. In 
       108 maps and drawings, The Eastern Question looks at these
       dynamics through a geopolitical lens with a scope of three
       millennia, from the days of the Persians and Alexander the
       Great to today's headlines. The drawings are historical 
       political cartoons; the maps ground the reader in the 
       geography of time and place. In the 19th century, the term
       the 'Eastern Question' referred to the problem posed by 
       the impending dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the fall 
       of which in the second decade of the 20th engendered the 
       modern 'muddle' of the Middle East in the 21st. In a 
       larger sense the East has always been a question for the 
       West, for the simple reason that's where the trouble comes
       from: Huns, Goths, Arabs, Mongols, Turks, Russians, 
       Soviets--to now a less well-defined, 'non-linear,' and 
       'asymmetric' trouble. As the West declines relatively and 
       the East rises, seemingly new questions are asked that are
       in fact old ones. 
650  0 Geopolitics|zMiddle East|vMaps. 
650  0 Geopolitics|zMiddle East|vPictorial works. 
650  0 Eastern question. 
650  0 East and West. 
651  0 Middle East|xHistory|vMaps. 
651  0 Middle East|xHistory|vPictorial works. 
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