This book examines key inland areas around the world to show how interior regions have shaped global history.
Robert S. G. Fletcher is professor of history and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri. His books include British Imperialism and "The Tribal Question": Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936 (2015) and The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War (2019).Alec Zuercher Reichardt is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.
