The modern Middle East :
Gelvin, James L., 1951-
The modern Middle East : a history / by James L. Gelvin - 2nd ed - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007 - viii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes index
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
9780195327588 0195327586 9780195327595 0195327594
2007001617
GBA763623 bnb
Nationalism--Middle East
Secularism--Middle East
Islam and politics--Middle East
Middle East--History
DS62.4 / .G37 2007
956
The modern Middle East : a history / by James L. Gelvin - 2nd ed - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007 - viii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes index
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
9780195327588 0195327586 9780195327595 0195327594
2007001617
GBA763623 bnb
Nationalism--Middle East
Secularism--Middle East
Islam and politics--Middle East
Middle East--History
DS62.4 / .G37 2007
956