The modern Middle East : a history
James L. Gelvin (Author)
"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" -- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2020
Fifth edition View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, New York, 2020
History
xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780190074067, 019007406X
1122689432
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?