MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2014042376
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008 141208s2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014042376
020 $a9780190218867 (paperback : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aDS62.4$b.G37 2016
082 00 $a956$223
100 1 $aGelvin, James L.,$d1951-
245 14 $aThe modern Middle East :$ba history /$cJames L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles.
250 $aFourth edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[2016]
300 $axii, 420 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aNew to this edition -- Part I. The advent of the modern age -- 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 -- Documents: Evliya Chelebi : Seyahataname (1); Evliya Chelebi : Seyahataname (2); Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535; The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1); The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2) -- Part II. The question of modernity -- Defensive developmentalism -- Imperialism -- Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the great nineteenth-century transformation -- The life of the mind -- Secularism and modernity -- Constitutionalism -- Documents: Commercial Convention (Balta Liman) : Britain and the Ottoman Empire; The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane; The Islahat Fermani; The 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 Abduh : the theology of unity; Namik Kemal : extract from the journal Hurriyet; The supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907 -- Part III. War I and the Middle East state system -- State-building by decree -- State-building by revolution and conquest -- The invention and spread of nationalisms -- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Documents: An 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; The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917; Mahmud Darwish : eleven planets in the last Andalusian sky -- Part IV. The contemporary era -- The autocratic state -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East -- Resistance -- The Arab uprisings -- Conclusion: The end of an era? -- Documents: Speech delivered by President Gamal Abd 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.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xHistory.
650 0 $aNationalism$zMiddle East$xHistory.
650 0 $aSecularism$zMiddle East$xHistory.
650 0 $aIslam and politics$zMiddle East$xHistory.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xPolitics and government.