The Modern Middle East: A History - Brossura

Gelvin, James L.

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ISBN 10: 0195327594 ISBN 13: 9780195327595

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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)

L'autore:

James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at UCLA. An award-winning teacher, he is the author ofThe Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2005), Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and numerous shorter works.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195327594
• ISBN 13: 9780195327595
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 368