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Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

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ISBN-10: 0520246616

ISBN-13: 9780520246614

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Edmund Burke, David Yaghoubian, Edmund Burke

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Edmund Burke IIIis Professor, Presidental Chair, and Director of the Center for World History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor, with David N. Yaghoubian, ofStruggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East(second editon, UC Press).Kenneth Pomeranzis Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and author ofThe Great Divergence,among other books.

Preface
Middle Eastern Societies and Ordinary People's Lives
Precolonial Lives
A Peasant of Mount Lebanon
A Circassian Slave in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo
Journeymen Textile Weavers in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: A Collective
A Kuwaiti Pearl Diver
Middle Atlas Berber
A Bakhtiyari Tribal Woman
Colonial Lives
Coping in Colonial Algeria
Preacher and Mujahid
A Damascus Qabaday
Tunisian Labor Organizer
An Armenian Truck Driver in Iran
An Iraqi Country Doctor
Post-Colonial Lives
Egyptian Bedouin Matriarch
Qashqa}i Rebel
An Iranian Village Boyhood
An Afghan Schoolteacher
A Palestinian Urban Villager
A Moroccan Migrant Worker
Contemporary Lives
Sa'idi Youth Between Islamism and Agriculture
Village Rebel or Political Protestor?
Iranian Community Leader
"Mother of the Believers"
West Bank Settler
A Syrian Engineer in the Gulf Michael Provence
Glossary
List of Contributors
Index