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The modern Middle East : a history
- Title
- The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Author
- Gelvin, James L., 1951-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-2617 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the Middle East over the course of the past 500 years" --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age -- Gunpowder Empires -- The Middle East and the Modern World System -- War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power -- Defensive Developmentalism -- Imperialism -- Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- The Life of the Mind -- Secularism and Modernity -- Constitutionalism -- State-Building by Decree -- State-Building by Revolution and Conquest -- The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms -- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- The Autocratic State -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East -- Resistance -- Conclusion : a New Middle East?
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2617
- ISBN
- 9780190074067
- 019007406X
- LCCN
- 2019044342
- OCLC
- 1122689432
- Author
- Gelvin, James L., 1951- author.
- Title
- The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Edition
- Fifth edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2617