The modern Middle East
By: Ilan Pappé
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415543712; 9780415543729
Description: "This book is the first introductory textbook on the modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women's histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernizing approaches, Ilan Pappe is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we investigate the past. Pappe begins his narrative at the end of the First World War with the Ottoman heritage, and concludes at the present day with the political discourse of Islam." "This second edition has been brought right up to date with recent events, and includes a new chapter on the media revolution and the effect of media globalization on the Middle East, and a revised and expanded discussion on modern Iranian history." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.