The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914

by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

Overview

In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among intellectuals, workers, dramatists, Egyptians, Ottoman Syrians, ethnic Italians, Greeks, and many others in these cities. In situating the Middle East within the context of world history, Khuri-Makdisi challenges nationalist and elite narratives of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history as well as Eurocentric ideas about global radical movements. The book demonstrates that these radical trajectories played a fundamental role in shaping societies throughout the world and offers a powerful rethinking of Ottoman intellectual and social history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520280144
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	08/03/2013
Series:	California World History Library , #13
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Assistant Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at Northeastern University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Late Nineteenth-century World and the Emergence of a Global Radical Culture
2. The Nah.a, the Press, and the Construction and Dissemination of a Radical Worldview
3. Theater and Radical Politics in Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria 1860–1914
4. The Construction of Two Radical Networks in Beirut and Alexandria
5. Workers, Labor Unrest, and the Formulation and Dissemination of Radical Leftist Ideas

Conclusion: Deprovincializing the Eastern Mediterranean

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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From the Publisher

"A dazzling array of published and archival sources in Arabic, Ottoman, Italian, French, and English."—Arab Studies Journal

"Effectively disputes tired and old paradigms. . . . An essential contribution to the literature of the origins of left-wing radicalism."—European Legacy

Editorial Reviews

A dazzling array of published and archival sources in Arabic, Ottoman, Italian, French, and English.

Arab Studies Journal

"A dazzling array of published and archival sources in Arabic, Ottoman, Italian, French, and English."--Arab Studies Journal

"Effectively disputes tired and old paradigms. . . . An essential contribution to the literature of the origins of left-wing radicalism."--European Legacy

From the Publisher

Effectively disputes tired and old paradigms. . . . An essential contribution to the literature of the origins of left-wing radicalism.

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