The Modern Middle East : A History /
James L. Gelvin.
- Fifth edition.
- xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Pt. 1. The Advent of the Modern Age -- Ch. 1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age -- Ch. 2. Gunpowder Empires -- Ch. 3. The Middle East and the Modern World System -- Ch. 4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power -- Pt. II. The Question of Modernity -- Ch. 5. Defensive Developmentalism -- Ch. 6. Imperialism -- Ch. 7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- Ch. 8. The Life of the Mind -- Ch. 9. Secularism and Modernity -- Ch. 10. Constitutionalism -- Pt. III. World War I and the Middle East State System -- Ch. 11. State-Building by Decree -- Ch. 12. State-Building by Revolution and Conquest -- Ch. 13. The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms -- Ch. 14. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Pt. IV. The Contemporary Era -- Ch. 15. The Autocratic State -- Ch. 16. Oil -- Ch. 17. The United States and the Middle East -- Ch. 18. Resistance -- Conclusion. A New Middle East?
Extensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East 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, and 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 text 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.
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