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The modern Middle East : a history
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Title
The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles.
ISBN
9780190218867 (paperback : acid-free paper)
019021886X (paperback : acid-free paper)
Edition
Fourth edition.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
Extensively revised and updated in the wake of the Arab uprisings, the changes that they fostered, and the fault lines that they exposed, the fourth 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 varied forms of resistance to them and to imperialism in an area of vital concern to us all. The Modern Middle East: A History, Fourth Edition, is engagingly written--drawing from the author's own research and other studies--and enriched with maps and photographs, original documents, and an abundance of supplementary materials.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 23, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
New to this edition
Part I. 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
War, diplomacy, and the new global balance of power
Documents: Evliya Chelebi : Seyahataname (1); Evliya Chelebi : Seyahataname (2); Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535; The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1); The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)
Part II. 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: Commercial Convention (Balta Liman) : Britain and the Ottoman Empire; The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane; The Islahat Fermani; The d'Arcy oil concession; Algeria : the poetry of loss; Huda Shaarawi : a new mentor and her salon for women; Rifaca Rafic al-Tahtawi : the extraction of gold or an overview of Paris; Muhammad Abduh : the theology of unity; Namik Kemal : extract from the journal Hurriyet; The supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907
Part III. War I and the Middle East state system
State-building by decree
State-building by revolution and conquest
The invention and spread of nationalisms
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Documents: An Arab soldier in the Ottoman Army; Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919; Theodor Herzl : a solution of the Jewish question; The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917; Mahmud Darwish : eleven planets in the last Andalusian sky
Part IV. The contemporary era
The autocratic state
Oil
The United States and the Middle East
Resistance
The Arab uprisings
Conclusion: The end of an era?
Documents: Speech delivered by President Gamal Abd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961; Zakaria Tamer : tigers on the tenth day
Ali Shariati : the philosophy of history : the story of Cain and Abel
Ayatollah Khomeini : Islamic government
Sayyid Qutb : milestones
Statement of the April 6 movement regarding the demands of the youth and the refusal to negotiate with any side
Yassir al-Manawahly, The International Monetary Fund.
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