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Modern Middle East A History

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ISBN-10: 0199766053

ISBN-13: 9780199766055

Edition: 3rd 2011

Authors: James L. Gelvin

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List price: $49.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188

Vignettes and Maps
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
New to This Edition
Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective
The Advent of the Modern Age
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
Documents
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanam� (1)
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanam� (2)
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)
Suggested Readings
The Question of Modernity
Defensive Developmentalism
Imperialism
Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation
Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation and its Aftermath
The Life of the Mind
Secularism and Modernity
Constitutionalism
Documents
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire
The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane
The Islahat Fermani
The d'Arcy Oil Concession
Algeria: The Poetry of Loss
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris
Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity
Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal H�rriyet
The Supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907
Suggested Readings
World War I and the Middle East State System
State-Building by Decree
State-Building by Revolution and Conquest
The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism
The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
Documents
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky
Suggested Readings
The Contemporary Era
State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship
Oil
The United States and the Middle East
Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians
The Iranian Revolution
Political Islam
Conclusion The Middle East in the �Age of Globalization�
Documents
Speech Delivered by President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961
Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones
Suggested Readings
Timeline
Biographical Sketches
Glossary
Credits
Index