The Modern Middle East Revised Edition,9781860649639

The Modern Middle East Revised Edition

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9781860649639
ISBN10: 1860649637
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-03-04
Publisher(s): INGRAM
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Summary

This reader brings together key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the best-known specialists in the field. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present day, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only text of its kind available. Fully updated with two new chapters to take into account recent world events, this book remains of great use to all those with a general interest in the Middle East.

Author Biography

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 to the Second Edition vii
Acknowledgements ix
Note on Presentation xii
Introduction
Albert Hourani
1(22)
Part I: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918
Introduction
Mary C. Wilson
23(6)
The Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the Time of Selim III and Mahmud II
Uriel Heyd
29(32)
Turkish Attitudes Concerning Christian-Muslim Equality in the Nineteenth Century
Roderic N. Davison
61(22)
Ottoman Reform and the Politics of Notables
Albert Hourani
83(28)
Egypt and Europe: from French Expedition to British Occupation
Roger Owen
111(14)
War and Society under the Young Turks, 1908-18
Feroz Ahmad
125(20)
Social Change in Persia in the Nineteenth Century
Ann K.S. Lambton
145(26)
Part II: Transformations in Society and Economy, 1789-1918
Introduction Mary C. Wilson
171(6)
Middle East Economic Development, 1815-1914: the General and the Specific
Charles Issawi
177(18)
The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt: a Reappraisal
Kenneth M. Cuno
195(34)
Decline of the Family Economy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Judith Tucker
229(26)
Ottoman Women, Households, and Textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914
Donald Quaraer
255(16)
Said Bey-The Everyday Life of an Istanbul Townsman at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Paul Dumont
271(18)
The Crowd in the Persian Revolution
Ervand Abrahamian
289(22)
Cairo
Andre Raymond
311(30)
Part III: The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics to the 1950's
Introduction
Mary C. Wilson
341(6)
Religion and Secularism in Turkey
Serif Mardin
347(28)
From Ottomanism to Arabism: The Origin of an Ideology
C. Ernest Dawn
375(20)
1919: Labor Upsurge and National Revolution
Joel Beinin and Zachary Lockman
395(34)
Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: the Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate
Philip S. Khoury
429(38)
The Role of the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-1939)
Ted Swedenburg
467(36)
Of the Diversity of Iraqis, the Incohesiveness of their Society, and their Progress in the Monarchic Period toward a Consolidated Political Structure
Hanna Batatu
503(26)
Pam IV: The Middle East Since the Second World War
Introduction
Mary C. Wilson
529(6)
Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948
Avi Shlaim
535(22)
Dilemmas of the Jewish State
David McDowall
557(20)
The Strange Career of Pan-Arabism
Stephen Humphreys
577(20)
Nasser 56/Cairo 96
Joel Gordon
597(18)
Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective
Nikki Keddie
615(24)
The Crisis of Religious Legitimacy in Iran
Olivier Roy
639(18)
Religion, Social Structure, and Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia
Mamoun Fandy
657(20)
Notes on Contributors
677

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