The Modern Middle East by James L Gelvin
In the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between 'East' and 'West.' This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader on a guided tour of the past five hundred years of Middle Eastern history, this book examines how the very forces associated with global "modernity" have shaped social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, The Modern Middle East explores the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century transformation, cultural continuities and upheavals, international diplomacy, economic booms and busts, the emergence of authoritarian regimes, and the current challenges to those regimes on everyday life in an area of vital concern to us all.
By far the most engaging survey of the history of the modern Middle East that I have read in a long time.. clearly written, often humorous, accessible to students and non-specialists and theoretically sophisticated. Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Gelvin, James L.: - James L. Gelvin is Associate Professor in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on nationalism and the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and The Modern Middle East: A History (2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195327595 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195327594 |
| Title | The Modern Middle East |
| Author | James L Gelvin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2007-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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