The modern Middle East : a history /
| Основен автор: | Gelvin, James L., 1951- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
c2008.
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| Издание: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of contents |
Съдържание:
- 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.