The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution

By William Roe Polk

The Birth of America

By William Roe Polk

Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation

By William Roe Polk

Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation

By William Roe Polk

Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq

By William R. Polk, William Roe Polk

Neighbors and Strangers: The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs

By William Roe Polk

Drawing on decades of experience in government and in the academy, William R. Polk offers a uniquely informed view of foreign relations as they occur in the real world. Rather than focusing narrowl...

Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East: The Nineteenth Century

By William R. Polk, Richard L. Chambers

Understanding Iran

By William Roe Polk

William R. Polk provides an informative, readable history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East. A former member of the State Depart...

Crusade and jihad

By William R. Polk

Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North - China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America - and Muslim...

The Elusive Peace: The Middle East in the Twentieth Century

By William Roe Polk