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• Title:The modern Middle East : a history / James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gelvin, James L., 1951- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS62.4 .G37 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Nationalism--Middle East--History.
  Secularism--Middle East--History.
  Islam and politics--Middle East--History.
  Middle East--History.
  Middle East--Politics and government.
  
• Edition:Fifth edition.
  
• Description:xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the Middle East over the course of the past 500 years" -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780190074067 paperback
  019007406X paperback
  9780190074074 electronic publication
  9780190084646 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE
  ch. 1 From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age
  ch. 2 Gunpowder Empires
  ch. 3 Middle East and the Modern World System
  ch. 4 War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power
  Documents
  Evliya Chelebi: Seyahataname (1)
  Evliya Chelebi: Seyahataname (2)
  Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535
  Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)
  Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)
  Suggested Readings
  pt. II QUESTION OF MODERNITY
  ch. 5 Defensive Developmentalism
  ch. 6 Imperialism
  ch. 7 Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation
  Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation and Its Aftermath
  ch. 8 Life of the Mind
  ch. 9 Secularism and Modernity
  ch. 10 Constitutionalism
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  Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire
  Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane
  Islahat Fermani
  d'Arcy Oil Concession
  Algeria: The Poetry of Loss
  Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women
  Rifaca Rafic al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris
  Muhammad cAbduh: The Theology of Unity
  Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hurriyet
  Supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907
  Suggested Readings
  pt. III WORLD WAR I AND THE MIDDLE EAST STATE SYSTEM
  ch. 11 State-Building by Decree
  ch. 12 State-Building by Revolution and Conquest
  ch. 13 Invention and Spread of Nationalisms
  ch. 14 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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  Arab Soldier in the Ottoman Army
  Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919
  Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question
  Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
  Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky
  Suggested Readings
  pt. IV CONTEMPORARY ERA
  ch. 15 Autocratic State
  ch. 16 Oil
  ch. 17 United States and the Middle East
  ch. 18 Resistance
  Conclusion A New Middle East?
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  Speech Delivered by President Gamal cAbd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961
  Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day
  Ali Shariati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel
  Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government
  Sayyid Qutb: Milestones
  "Statement of the April 6 Movement Regarding the Demands of the Youth and the Refusal to Negotiate with Any Side"
  Yassir al-Manawahly: "The International Monetary Fund"
  Suggested Readings.