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Parting the Desert
副标题: The Creation of the Suez Canal
ISBN: 9780375708121
出版社: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House Inc
出版年: 2004
页数: 310
定价: USD18.00
装帧: 平装
作者简介
Zachary Karabell was educated at Columbia; Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies; and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth. He is the author of several books, including "The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election".
目录
Chapter 1: The Twilight
Chapter 2: The French Fall in Love
Chapter 3: Industry and the Saint-Simonians
Chapter 4: A Man, a Plan, a Canal
Chapter 5: Egypt and Rome
Chapter 6: A Journey in the Desert
Chapter 7: Whose Canal?
Chapter 8: The Sultan's Shadow and the English Lion
Chapter 9: Hither and Yon
Chapter 10: The Emperor and the Entrepreneur
Chapter 11: A Universal Company for a Maritime Canal
Chapter 12: The Work Ahead
Chapter 13: The Corvée
Chapter 14: The New Viceroy and His Minister
Chapter 15: Ferdinand Fights Back
Chapter 16: Men and Machines
Chapter 17: The Canal Goes to Paris
Chapter 18: The Final Stages
Chapter 19: The Desert Is Parted
Chapter 20: The Legacy
Epilogue: Ozymandias
