Histories of the Modern Middle East : : New Directions / / ed. by Hakan Erdem, Israel Gershoni, Ursula Wokock.

Reflecting cutting-edge scholarship and covering more than two centuries of change, this seminal collection represents key trends in the historiography of the modern Middle East. The authors each combine a methodological theme with concrete, original research, relating theoretical issues to the actu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES AND FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 Doing History: Modern Middle Eastern Studies Today
  • PART 1 New Dimensions of Modernizing Processes
  • 2 The Great Ottoman Debasement, 1808–1844: A Political Economy Framework
  • 3 A Prelude to Ottoman Reform: Ibn ‘A¯ bidi¯n on Custom and Legal Change
  • 4 The Damascus Affair and the Beginnings of France’s Empire in the Middle East
  • 5 The Gender of Modernity: Reflections from Iranian Historiography
  • PART 2 Globalization Then and Now
  • 6 From Liberalism to Liberal Imperialism: Lord Cromer and the First Wave of Globalization in Egypt
  • 7 Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Classes in the Middle East
  • PART 3 Recovering Lost Voices in the Age of Colonialism
  • 8 Exploring the Field: Lost Voices and Emerging Practices in Egypt, 1882–1914
  • 9 Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim’s Dialogues About the Family
  • 10 Shaikh al-Ra’is and Sultan Abdülhamid II: The Iranian Dimension of Pan-Islam
  • PART 4 Constructing Identities, Defining Nations
  • 11 Recruitment for the “Victorious Soldiers of Muhammad” in the Arab Provinces, 1826–1828
  • 12 The Politics of History and Memory: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Lausanne Peace Conference, 1922–1923
  • 13 Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine: The Half-Full Glass?
  • 14 Manly Men on a National Stage (and the Women Who Make Them Stars)
  • PART 5 Conclusion
  • 15 The Return of the Concrete?
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE BOOK