ISBN:
9780190074067
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 428 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Fifth edition
Year of publication:
2020
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-2000
;
Geschichte 1500-2003
;
Geschichte
;
Nationalism
;
Secularism
;
Islam and politics
;
Middle East History
;
Naher Osten
;
Nationalism / Middle East / History
;
Secularism / Middle East / History
;
Islam and politics / Middle East / History
;
Middle East / History
;
Middle East / Politics and government
;
Islam and politics
;
Nationalism
;
Politics and government
;
Secularism
;
Middle East
;
History
;
Einführung
;
Naher Osten
;
Geschichte 1500-2003
;
Naher Osten
;
Geschichte
;
Naher Osten
;
Geschichte 1500-2000
Abstract:
"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" --
Description / Table of Contents:
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?
