The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gelvin, James L., 1951-
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Middle East > History.
Nationalism > Middle East.
Secularism > Middle East.
Islam and politics > Middle East.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents only - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:viii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Timeline
  • Introduction: 9/11 in historical perspective
  • 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
  • The classical Near Eastern question
  • Documents
  • Suggested readings
  • 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
  • Suggested readings
  • World War I and the Middle East state system
  • State-building by decree
  • State-building by revolution and conquest-- The introduction and spread of nationalism
  • The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
  • Documents
  • Suggested readings
  • The contemporary era
  • State and society in the contemporary
  • Middle East: an old/new relationship
  • Oil
  • The United States and the Middle East-- Israel, the Arab states, and the Palestinians
  • The Iranian revolution
  • Islamic political movements
  • Documents
  • Suggested readings
  • Conclusion: the Middle East in the age of globalization
  • Biographical sketches
  • Glossary.