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

By: Gelvin, James L, 1951- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2008Edition: Second ed.Description: viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195327588 (acidfree paper); 9780195327595 (acidfree paper).Subject(s): Nationalism -- Middle East | Secularism -- Middle East | Islam and politics -- Middle East | Middle East -- History
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.
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Individual Collection 		msh DS62.4 .G37 2008 (Browse shelf) Not For Loan Waqf 1000096198

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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