Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East - Softcover

Burke, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520246616 ISBN 13: 9780520246614

Publisher: California University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history—depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East—from Morocco to Afghanistan—in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history "from the bottom up." Spanning the past 160-plus years and reflecting important transformations, these stories challenge elite-centered accounts of what has occurred in the Middle East and illuminate the previously hidden corners of a largely unrecorded world.

About this title

About the Author:

Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor, with David Prochaska, of After the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History and Theory (2005) and coeditor, with Ira M. Lapidus, of Islam, Politics, and Social Movements (California, 1990). David N. Yaghoubian is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.

About this edition

• Publisher: California University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0520246616
• ISBN 13: 9780520246614
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 438