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The modern Middle East : a history
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"The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the Middle East over the course of the ...
"The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the Middle East over the course of the past 500 years" --
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- Creator
- James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles
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- English
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- Fifth edition
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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- xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190074067, 019007406X, 9780190074074, 9780190084646
- OCLC
- on1122689432
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age -- Gunpowder Empires -- The Middle East and the Modern World System -- War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power -- Defensive Developmentalism -- Imperialism -- Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- The Life of the Mind -- Secularism and Modernity -- Constitutionalism -- State-Building by Decree -- State-Building by Revolution and Conquest -- The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms -- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- The Autocratic State -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East -- Resistance -- Conclusion : a New Middle East?