The modern Middle East
Subtitle: a history
By: by James L. Gelvin.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780195327588; 9780195327595
Subjects: Nationalism -- Middle East; Secularism -- Middle East; Islam and politics -- Middle East; Middle East -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline; title: Introduction: 9/11 in historical perspective; title: The advent of the modern age; title: From late antiquity to the dawn of a new age; title: Gunpowder empires; title: The Middle East and the modern world system; title: The classical Near Eastern question; title: Documents; title: Suggested readings; title: The question of modernity; title: Defensive developmentalism; title: Imperialism; title: Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the great nineteenth-century transformation; title: The life of the mind; title: Secularism and modernity; title: Constitutionalism; title: Documents; title: Suggested readings; title: World War I and the Middle East state system; title: State-building by decree; title: State-building by revolution and conquest; title: The introduction and spread of nationalism; title: The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute; title: Documents; title: Suggested readings; title: The contemporary era; title: State and society in the contemporary; title: Middle East: an old/new relationship; title: Oil; title: The United States and the Middle East; title: Israel, the Arab states, and the Palestinians; title: The Iranian revolution; title: Islamic political movements; title: Documents; title: Suggested readings; title: Conclusion: the Middle East in the age of globalization; title: Biographical sketches; title: Glossary.