The Modern Middle East: A History - Softcover

Gelvin, James L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199766053 ISBN 13: 9780199766055

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2011

Synopsis

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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Review:

By far the most engaging survey of the history 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)

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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199766053
• ISBN 13: 9780199766055
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384