Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking the Middle East / Efraim Karsh.

Author

Karsh, Efraim.

Publication

London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.

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Details

Description

208 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East Studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a culture of victimisation; it views the local populations of the Middle East - Arabs in particular - as the hapless victims of alien encroachment, and blames the region's endemic malaise on Western political and cultural imperialism."
• "Professor Efraim Karsh contends that the influence of the Great Powers has not been the primary force behind the region's political development, nor the main cause of its famous volatility. He argues that the main impetus has been provided by regional factors; and that - even at their weakest point in modern history, during the final stages of the Ottoman Empire - the peoples in the Middle East have played an active role in the restructuring of their region."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society, 1368-4795

Uniform Title

Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society

Subjects

• Middle East
• History
• Naher Osten
• Moyen-Orient > 20e siècle
• Israël > Histoire
• Middle East > Foreign relations
• Middle East > History > 20th century
• Nahostkonflikt
• Conflit israélo-arabe
• Great powers > Foreign relations > Middle East
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Politieke conflicten
• Politieke ontwikkeling

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Why the Middle East is so volatile -- Reactive imperialism: Britain's occupation of Egypt revisited -- Victim or failed aggressor? The Ottoman entry into the First World War -- Rethinking the creation of the modern Middle East -- Cold War, Post-Cold War: does it make a difference for the Middle East? -- The long tail of Arab Anti-Semitism -- The collusion that never was: King Abdallah, the Jewish Agency, and the partition of Palestine -- Were the Palestinian [sic] expelled? -- The Palestinians and the right of return -- Rewriting Israel's history -- Revisionists, Arabists, and pure charlatans.

ISBN

• 0714654183
• 9780714654188
• 0714683469
• 9780714683461

LCCN

• 2002041580
• 99806939282

OCLC

• ocm51234901
• 51234901
• SCSB-14417507

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library