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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195167899
ISBN-139780195167894
eBay Product ID (ePID)5969342
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Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameModern Middle East : a History
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
SubjectTheology, Religion, Politics & State, Middle East / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorJames L. Gelvin
Subject AreaReligion, History
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight18.3 Oz
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LCCN2003-066230
Reviews"An important and much needed conceptual approach to the modern history of the Middle East."--Edmund "Terry" Burke III, University of California, Santa Cruz "Excellent history text....clearly surpasses other texts I've used. Well organized, comprehensive, yet readable for undergraduates; wonderful illustrations and side-bar comments and good choice of documents."--Robert Kramer, St. Norbert College, "Excellent history text....clearly surpasses other texts I've used. Well organized, comprehensive, yet readable for undergraduates; wonderful illustrations and side-bar comments and good choice of documents."--Robert Kramer, St. Norbert College, "An important and much needed conceptual approach to the modern history of the Middle East."--Edmund "Terry" Burke III, University of California, Santa Cruz, "An important and much needed conceptual approach to the modern history of the Middle East."--Edmund "Terry" Burke III, University of California, Santa Cruz"Excellent history text....clearly surpasses other texts I've used. Well organized, comprehensive, yet readable for undergraduates; wonderful illustrations and side-bar comments and good choice of documents."--Robert Kramer, St. Norbert College, "An important and much needed conceptual approach to the modern history of the Middle East."--Edmund "Terry" Burke III,University of California, Santa Cruz "Excellent history text....clearly surpasses other texts I've used. Well organized, comprehensive, yet readable for undergraduates; wonderful illustrations and side-bar comments and good choice of documents."--Robert Kramer,St. Norbert College
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Table Of ContentEach part ends with Suggested Readings.Vignettes and MapsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction: September 11 in Historical PerspectivePart I: The Advent of the Modern Age1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age2. Gunpowder Empires3. The Middle East and the Modern World System4. 4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of PowerDocumentsDraft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535The 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 Modernity5. Defensive Developmentalism6. Imperialism7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation8. The Life of the Mind9. Secularism and Modernity10. ConstitutionalismDocumentsCommercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman EmpireThe Hatt-i Sharif of GulhaneThe Islahat FermaniThe d'Arcy Oil ConcessionAlgeria: Poetry of LossHuda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for WomenRifaa Rafi al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of ParisMuhammad [insert ayn symbol] Abduh: The Theology of UnityNamik Kemal: Extract from the Journal HürriyetThe Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907Part III: World War I and the Middle East State System11. State-building by Decree12. State-building by Revolution and Conquest13. The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism14. The Origins of the Arab-Israeli DisputeDocumentsResolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish QuestionThe Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian SkyPart IV: The Contemporary Era15. State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East16. Oil17. The United States and the Middle East18. Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians19. The Iranian Revolution20. Islamic Political MovementsConclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization"DocumentsSpeech Delivered by President Gamal Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth DayU.N. Security Council Resolution 242Ali Shari ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and AbelAyatollah Khomeini: Islamic GovernmentSayyid Qutb: MilestonesTimelineBiographical SketchesGlossaryCreditsIndex
SynopsisIn the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between "East" and "West." This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader on a guided tour of the past five hundredyears of Middle Eastern history, this book examines how the very forces associated with global "modernity" have shaped social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century,The Modern Middle East: A History explores 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 thoseregimes on everyday life in an area of vital concern to us all. 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 thathave shaped history and the debates about them that have absorbed historians., In the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between "East" and "West." This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader on a guided tour of the past five hundred years of Middle Eastern history, this book examines how the very forces associated with global "modernity" have shaped social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, The Modern Middle East: A History explores 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. 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.
LC Classification NumberDS62.4.G37 2004
