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Author: Peter Mansfield
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780140125382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores two centuries of history in the Middle East, from Napoleon's invasions of Egypt, through the Ottoman Empire's collapse, to the discovery of oil, the founding of Israel, and beyond
Author: Roger Owen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674398306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text offers an examination of the economic history of the principal Arab countries, Turkey and Israel since 1918. Using the state as its major economic analysis, it charts the growth of national income and issues of welfare and distribution over two periods, 1918-1945 and 1945-1990. Important trends are explored, including the patterns of colonial economic management, import substitution, the impact of the 1970s oil boom, and the current process of liberalization and structural adjustment
Author: Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0817912967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other, he explains, to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word.
Author: Michael Quentin Morton
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1780238614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOil lies at the heart of the modern history of the Middle East. For decades, the world’s largest oil reserves have enriched the region’s nations. But oil wealth has not brought with it universal prosperity. It has, though, transformed the Middle Eastern people and societies—enriching empires and engendering anarchies. Empires and Anarchies is an unconventional history of oil in the Middle East. In Michael Quentin Morton’s account the burnt-out remains of Saddam Hussein’s armaments and the human tragedy of the Arab Spring are as much of the story as the shimmering skylines of oil-rich nations. From the first explorers trudging through the desert to the excesses of the Peacock Throne and the high stakes of OPEC, Morton lays out the history of oil in compelling detail, arguing that oil simultaneously enriched and fractured the Middle East, eroding traditional ways of life, and eventually contributing to the rise of Islamic radicalism. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the promises and peril of the world’s oil boom.
Author: Betty S. Anderson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016-04-20
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0804798753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey, Iran, and the Arab countries of the Middle East, as well as areas often left out of Middle East history—such as the Balkans and the changing roles that Western forces have played in the region for centuries—to discuss the larger contexts and influences on the region's cultural and political development. Enriched by the perspectives of workers and professionals; urban merchants and provincial notables; slaves, students, women, and peasants, as well as political leaders, the book maps the complex social interrelationships and provides a pivotal understanding of the shifting shapes of governance and trajectories of social change in the Middle East. Extensively illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, this text skillfully integrates a diverse range of actors and influences to construct a narrative that is at once sophisticated and lucid. A History of the Modern Middle East highlights the region's complexity and variation, countering easy assumptions about the Middle East, those who governed, and those they governed—the rulers, rebels, and rogues who shaped a region.
Author: Youssef M. Choueiri
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1405152044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle East Comprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars Primarily focused on the modern and contemporary periods Covers religious, social, cultural, economic, political and military history Treats the region as four differentiated political units – Iran, Turkey, Israel and the Arab world Includes a section on current issues, such as oil, urban growth, the role of women, and democratic human rights
Author: Israel Gershoni
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0295800895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of ten essays focuses on the way major schools and individuals have narrated histories of the Middle East. The distinguished contributors explore the historiography of economic and intellectual history, nationalism, fundamentalism, colonialism, the media, slavery, and gender. In doing so, they engage with some of the most controversial issues of the twentieth century. Middle Eastern studies today cover a rich and varied terrain, yet the study of the profession itself has been relatively neglected. There is, however, an ever-present need to examine what the research has chosen to include and exclude and to become more consciously aware of shifts in research approaches and methods. This collection illuminates the evolving state of the art and suggests new directions for further research.
Author: Louise L'Estrange Fawcett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780199269631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars of Middle East politics and international relations present comprehensive coverage of the international politics of the Middle East, a region at the forefront of international attention.
Author: Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0684807122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2000-year history of a region stretching from Libya to Central Asia ; concludes with the effects of the Gulf War.
Author: Cyrus Schayegh
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-08-28
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0674981103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio-spatial feature was not the oft-studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization. Rather, it was fast-paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits, a bundle of processes he calls transpatialization. To make this case, Schayegh’s study pivots around Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham in Arabic), which is roughly coextensive with present-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. From this region, Schayegh looks beyond, to imperial and global connections, diaspora communities, and neighboring Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. And he peers deeply into Bilad al-Sham: at cities and their ties, and at global economic forces, the Ottoman and European empire-states, and the post-Ottoman nation-states at work within the region. He shows how diverse socio-spatial intertwinements unfolded in tandem during a transformative stretch of time, the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, and concludes with a postscript covering the 1940s to 2010s.
