| Description |
viii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Timeline -- Introduction: 9/11 in historical perspective -- The advent of the modern age -- From late antiquity to the dawn of a new age -- Gunpowder empires -- The Middle East and the modern world system -- The classical Near Eastern question -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- The question of modernity -- Defensive developmentalism -- Imperialism -- Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the great nineteenth-century transformation -- The life of the mind -- Secularism and modernity -- Constitutionalism -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- World War I and the Middle East state system -- State-building by decree -- State-building by revolution and conquest-- The introduction and spread of nationalism -- The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- The contemporary era -- State and society in the contemporary -- Middle East: an old/new relationship -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East-- Israel, the Arab states, and the Palestinians -- The Iranian revolution -- Islamic political movements -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- Conclusion: the Middle East in the age of globalization -- Biographical sketches -- Glossary |
| Summary |
"Newly revised and updated to explain events that have occurred since the American occupation of Iraq, the second edition of The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, this book examines the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century transformation, cultural continuities and upheavals, international diplomacy, economic booms and busts, the emergence of authoritarian regimes, and the current challenges to those regimes on everyday life in an area of vital concern to us all |
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Engagingly written, drawing from the author's own research and other studies, and stocked with maps and photographs, original documents, and an abundance of supplementary materials, The Modern Middle East: A History will provide both novices and specialists with fresh insights into the events that have shaped history and the debates about them that have absorbed historians."--pub. desc |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Islam and politics -- Middle East.
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Nationalism -- Middle East.
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Secularism -- Middle East.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090506
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| LC no. |
2007001617 |
| ISBN |
0195327586 (hbk.) |
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0195327594 (paperback) |
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9780195327588 (hbk.) |
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9780195327595 (paperback) |
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