The Middle East: A Physical, Social, and Regional Geography

xiii, 514 pp. With 95 maps and diagrams. CONTENTS: Introductory; Part I. Physical Geography of the Middle East: Land Forms and Structure - Climate - Soils and Natural Vegetation; Part II. Social Geography of the Middle East: Peoples - Human Society in the Middle East - Aspects of the Historical Geography of the Middle East--The Rise of Empires in Relation to Their Geographical Setting - General Economic Life (1) - General Economic Life (2) - Oil Resources of the Middle East - Demographic Trends in the Middle East; Part III, Regional Geography of the Middle East: Iran - Asia Minor - The Tigris-Euphrates Lowlands - The Coastlands of the Levant - The Arabian Peninsula - The Nile Valley and Its Borderlands; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Bibliography; Index.