Xavier Fredericks’s Reviews > A History of the Middle East > Status Update

Questionable analysis of Arab nationalism (perhaps a misunderstanding of nationalism generally), not acknowledging the Armenian genocide as such, no definitive callout of Israeli policies of terrorism in the late mandatory period and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948. Yet I wonder how much time will be spent on “radical Islamic terror” post-1980.

Should really be titled “A History of the Modern Middle East” given that Mansfield blitzes through thousands of years of history. But this is still solid up to the late 19th century, though he hasn’t covered anything up for significant debate so far.