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Title The modern Middle East : a reader / edited by Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury, and Mary C. Wilson.

Imprint London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2004.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  956 M72 2004    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xi, 680 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Contents Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the time of Selim III and Mahmud II / Uriel Heyd -- Turkish attitudes concerning Christian-Muslim equality in the nineteenth century / Roderic H. Davison -- Ottoman reform and the politics of notables / Albert Hourani -- Egypt and Europe : from French expedition to British occupation / Roger Owen -- War and society under the Young Turks, 1908-18 / Feroz Ahmad -- Social change in Persia in the nineteenth century / Ann K. S. Lambton -- Middle East economic development, 1815-1914 : the general and the specific / Charles Issawi -- Origins of private ownership of land in Egypt : a reappraisal / Kenneth M. Cuno -- Decline of the family economy in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt / Judith Tucker -- Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert -- Said Bey : the everyday life of an Istanbul townsman at the beginning of the twentieth century / Paul Dumont -- Crowd in the Persian revolution / Ervand Abrahamian -- Cairo / Andre Raymond -- Religion and secularism in Turkey / Serif Mardin.
From Ottomanism to Arabism : the origin of an ideology / C. Ernest Dawn -- 1919 : labor upsurge and national revolution / Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman -- Syrian urban politics in transition : the quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate / Philip S. Khoury -- Role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-1939) / Ted Swedenburg -- Of the diversity of Iraqis, the incohesiveness of their society, and their progress in the Monarchic Period toward a consolidated political structure / Hanna Batatu -- Israel and the Arab coalition in 1948 / Avi Shlaim -- Dilemmas of the Jewish state / David McDowall -- Strange career of Pan-Arabism / Stephen Humphreys -- Nasser 56/Cairo 96 / Joel Gordon -- Iranian revolutions in comparative perspective / Nikki Keddie -- Crisis of religious legitimacy in Iran / Olivier Roy -- Religion, social structure, and political dissent in Saudi Arabia / Mamoun Fandy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Middle East -- History -- 1517-
Middle East -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Hourani, Albert Habib.
Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry), 1949-
Wilson, Mary C. (Mary Christina), 1950-
ISBN 1860649637

 
    
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