Modern Middle East A Social and Cultural History

Name: Modern Middle East A Social and Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780415829519

ISBN-10: 0415829518

ISBN-13: 9780415829519

Edition: 3rd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Ilan Pappï¿½

List price: $54.95

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This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan Pappé is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we investigate the past. Pappé begins his narrative at the end of the First World War with the Ottoman heritage, and concludes at the present day with the political discourse of Islam. Providing full geographical coverage of the region, The Modern Middle East:opens with a carefully argued introduction…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/12/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.77" wide x 9.61" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Mark Zimmerman is the Technical Editor of Motorcycle Cruiser magazine, and a contributor to Classic Bikeï¿½Guide magazine.ï¿½He lives in Danbury, Connecticut. ï¿½ Jeff Hackett has been photographing motorcycles for magazines, books, and calendars for 19 years.ï¿½He lives outside New Haven, Connecticut.Jeff Hackett has been photographing motorcycles for magazines, books, and calendars for 19 years. He lives outside New Haven, Connecticut.



List of illustrations


Preface to the first edition


Preface to the second edition


Preface to the third edition


Introduction: whose 'modern times'?



The political and economic background



The rural history of the Middle East in the twentieth century



Urban history



Popular culture: music, dance and arts



The history of the written word



Histories of Middle Eastern women



The many faces of Religion in the twenty-first century



The new media revolution



The globalized Middle East in the twenty-first century: three final aspects



The 'Arab Spring': A Defining Moment for Middle Eastern Scholars


Notes


Bibliography


Picture credits


Index