The Modern Middle East: A History - Softcover

Gelvin, James L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199766053 ISBN 13: 9780199766055

Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr, 2011

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Book by Gelvin James L

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"Gelvin evokes a fascinating tale of the intersection of the forces of progress, reformation, revolution and imperialism that have collectively defined the modern Middle East. His cogent and crisply written history now sets the standard for serious surveys of the region."--Ussama Makdisi, Rice University

"By far the most engaging survey of the modern Middle East that I have read in a long time. . . . clearly written, often humorous, accessible to students and non-specialists and theoretically sophisticated."--Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University

"An important and much-needed conceptual approach to the modern history of the Middle East."--Edmund "Terry" Burke III, University of California, Santa Cruz

Reseña del editor:

Newly revised and updated for the second decade of the twenty-first century, the third edition ofThe Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, this book examines the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century transformation, cultural continuities and upheavals, international diplomacy, economic booms and busts, the emergence of authoritarian regimes, and the current challenges to those regimes on everyday life in an area of vital concern to us all.

Engagingly written, drawing from the author's own research and other studies, and stocked with maps and photographs, original documents, and an abundance of supplementary materials,The Modern Middle East: A History, Third Edition, will provide both novices and specialists with fresh insights into the events that have shaped history and the debates about them that have absorbed historians.

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• Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199766053
• ISBN 13: 9780199766055
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384