Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914

Name: Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
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ISBN: 9780520280144

ISBN-10: 0520280148

ISBN-13: 9780520280144

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

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In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among intellectuals, workers, dramatists, Egyptians, Ottoman Syrians, ethnic Italians, Greeks, and many others in these cities. In situating the Middle East within the context of world history, Khuri-Makdisi challenges nationalist and elite narratives of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history as well as Eurocentric ideas about global radical movements. The book demonstrates that these radical…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Late Nineteenth-century World and the Emergence of a Global Radical Culture



The Nahda, the Press, and the Construction and Dissemination of a Radical Worldview



Theater and Radical Politics in Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria 1860-1914



The Construction of Two Radical Networks in Beirut and Alexandria



Workers, Labor Unrest, and the Formulation and Dissemination of Radical Leftist Ideas


Conclusion: Deprovincializing the Eastern Mediterranean


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index