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The modern Middle East : a history
- Title
- The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin.
- Author
- Gelvin, James L., 1951-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2008.
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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 11-1943 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
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- Description
- viii, 360 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Timeline -- Introduction: 9/11 in historical perspective -- The advent of the modern age -- From late antiquity to the dawn of a new age -- Gunpowder empires -- The Middle East and the modern world system -- The classical Near Eastern question -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- The question of modernity -- Defensive developmentalism -- Imperialism -- Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the great nineteenth-century transformation -- The life of the mind -- Secularism and modernity -- Constitutionalism -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- World War I and the Middle East state system -- State-building by decree -- State-building by revolution and conquest-- The introduction and spread of nationalism -- The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- The contemporary era -- State and society in the contemporary -- Middle East: an old/new relationship -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East-- Israel, the Arab states, and the Palestinians -- The Iranian revolution -- Islamic political movements -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- Conclusion: the Middle East in the age of globalization -- Biographical sketches -- Glossary.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-1943
- ISBN
- 9780195327588 (acid-free paper)
- 0195327586 (acid-free paper)
- 9780195327595 (acid-free paper)
- 0195327594 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001617
- OCLC
- YBP 2007001617
- Author
- Gelvin, James L., 1951-
- Title
- The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2008.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-1943