Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (The Contemporary Middle East)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 17, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780521629034
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Social classes; Work & labour; 20th century; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Minority Studies - General; History: World; History - General History; Working class; Middle East; Modern - 20th Century; Middle East - General; Social History; History / Middle East; Working class--Middle East--History; Artisans; History; Peasantry
First sentence: The large-scale economic and political processes that characterize the period of this chapter are the rise of autonomous provincial regimes, the expansion of agricultural production, and the intensification of links between several parts of the Ottoman Empire and the world capitalist market.