Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xvii, 325 p. : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 25 cm. |
Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Note |
Published by Princeton University Press. |
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This book has been composed in Sabon. |
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Printed on acid-free paper. |
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Printed in the United States of America. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference and index. |
Contents |
Being Modern in a Time of Revolution: The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of Middle-Class Politics (1908-1918) -- Being Modern in a Moment of Anxiety: The Middle Class Makes Sense of a "Postwar" World (1918-1924)-Historicism, Nationalism, and Violence -- Being Modern in an Era of Colonialism: Middle-Class Modernity and the Culture of the French Mandate for Syria (1925-1946). |
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Introduction: Modernity, Class, and the Architectures of Community -- An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution -- Ottoman Precedents (I): Journalism, Voluntary Association, and the "True Civilization" of the Middle Class -- Ottoman Precedents (II): The Technologies of the Public Sphere and the Multiple Deaths of the Ottoman Citizen -- Rescuing the Arab from History: Halab, Orientalist Imaginings, Wilsonianism, and Early Arabism -- The Persistence of Empire at the Moment of Its Collapse: Ottoman-Islamic Identity and "New Men" Rebels -- Remembering the Great War: Allegory, Civic Virtue, and Conservative Reaction -- Deferring to the A'yan: The Middle Class and the Politic of Notables -- Middle-Class Fascism and the Transformation of Civil Violence: Steel Shirts, White Badges, and the Last Qabaday -- Not Quite Syrians: Aleppo's Communities of Collaboration -- Coda: The Incomplete Project of Middle-Class Modernity and the Paradox of Metropolitan Desire. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
Subject |
Arab nationalism.
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Middle class -- Arab countries.
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Revolutions.
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Social conflict -- Arab countries.
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Civil society -- Arab countries.
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Middle Eastern 1 : -- General & Multiperiod.
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9780691121699 alk. cloth |
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0691121699 alk. cloth |
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9781400866663 |
Standard No. |
2027/heb34146 hdl |
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