The Modern Middle East / Edition 2

The Modern Middle East / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
1860649637
ISBN-13:
9781860649639
Pub. Date:
03/04/2004
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
1860649637
ISBN-13:
9781860649639
Pub. Date:
03/04/2004
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
The Modern Middle East / Edition 2

The Modern Middle East / Edition 2

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Overview

This textbook assembles key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field. The book aims to meet the needs of a wide range of students. After a general introduction by Albert Hourani, the essays are arranged in four sections: reforming elites and changing relations with Europe 1789-1918; transformation in society and economy 1789-1918; imperialism and nationalism in the interwar period; and the Middle East since World War II. This revised edition contains a range of additional material on the history of the region since the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781860649639
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/04/2004
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 696
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.39(d)

About the Author

Albert Hourani (1915-1993) was Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and Reader in the Modern History of the Middle East at the University of Oxford. His books include 'A History of the Arab Peoples'.
Philip S. Khoury is Professor of History and Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism (1983) and Syria and the French Mandate (1987), and Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (1990).
Mary C. Wilson is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is author of King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan (1987).

Table of Contents

Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Presentation
• Introduction--Albert Hourani
Part I: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918
• Introduction--Mary C. Wilson
• The Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the Time of Selim III and Mahmud II--Uriel Heyd
• Turkish Attitudes Concerning Christian-Muslim Equality in the Nineteenth Century--Roderic H. Davison
• Ottoman Reform and the Politics of Notables--Albert Hourani
• Egypt and Europe: from French Expedition to British Occupation--Roger Owen
• War & Society under the Young Turks, 1908-18--Feroz Ahmad
• Social Change in Persia in the Nineteenth Century--Ann K.S. Lambton
Part II: Transformations in Society & Economy, 1789-1918
• Introduction--Mary C. Wilson
• Middle East Economic Development, 1815-1914: the General and the Secific--Charles Issawi
• The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt: a Reappraisal--Kenneth M. Cuno
• Decline of the Family Economy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Egypt--Judith Tucker
• Ottoman Women, Households, and textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914--Donald Quataert
• Said Bey--The Everyday Life of an Istanbul Townsman at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century--Paul Dumont
• The Crowd in the Persian Revolution--Ervand Abrahamian
• Cairo--Andre Raymond
Part III: The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics to the 1950s
• Introduction--Mary C. Wilson
• Religion and Secularism in Turkey--Serif Mardin
• From Ottomanism to Arabism: The Origin of an Ideology--C. Ernest Dawn
• 1919: Labor Upsurge and National Revolution--Joel Beinin & Zachary Lockman
• Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate--Philip S. Khoury
• The Role of the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt--1936-1939--Ted Swedenburg
• Of the Diversity of Iraqis, the Incohesiveness of their Society, and their Progress in the Monarchic Period toward a Consolidated Political Structure-- Hanna Batatu
Part IV: The Middle East Since the Second World War
• Introduction--Mary C. Wilson
• Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948--Avi Shlaim
• Dilemmas of the Jewish State--David McDowall
• The Strange Career of Pan Arabism--Stephen Humphreys
• Nasser 56/Cairo 96--Joel Gordon
• Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective--Nikki Keddie
• The Crisis of Religious Legitimacy in Iran--Olivier Roy
• Religion, Social Structure and Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia--Mamoun Fandy

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