xii, 428 sider : illustrasjoner, kart

Fifth edition

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 -- Defensive Developmentalism -- Imperialism -- Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- The Life of the Mind -- Secularism and Modernity -- Constitutionalism -- State-Building by Decree -- State-Building by Revolution and Conquest -- The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms -- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- The Autocratic State -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East -- Resistance -- Conclusion : a New Middle East?. - "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" --

Middle East - History. . - Middle East - Politics and government. . - Midtøsten : (NO-TrBIB)HUME03755

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