Tormented Births
Subtitle: Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: October 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781860649769
Subjects: Development studies; Modernism; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology - General; History: World; History; Politics / Current Events; Europe; Middle East; Anthropology - Cultural; Globalization; Political Science / Economic Policy; Middle East - General
First sentence: The theme of this study is to question many of the assumptions upon which a huge edifice of 'third world', development/underdevelopment, and/or area studies, studies on the paths to modernity and ultimately our understanding of modern world history rests.