MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2007001617
003 DLC
005 20070321112019.0
008 070116s2007 nyu 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007001617
020 $a9780195327588
020 $a9780195327595
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $aaw-----
050 00 $aDS62.4$b.G37 2007
082 00 $a956$222
100 1 $aGelvin, James L.,$d1951-
245 14 $aThe modern Middle East :$ba history /$cby James L. Gelvin.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c2007.
263 $a0708
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aTimeline -- Introduction: 9/11 in historical perspective -- 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 -- The classical Near Eastern question -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- 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 -- Suggested readings -- World War I and the Middle East state system -- State-building by decree -- State-building by revolution and conquest-- The introduction and spread of nationalism -- The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- The contemporary era -- State and society in the contemporary -- Middle East: an old/new relationship -- Oil -- The United States and the Middle East-- Israel, the Arab states, and the Palestinians -- The Iranian revolution -- Islamic political movements -- Documents -- Suggested readings -- Conclusion: the Middle East in the age of globalization -- Biographical sketches -- Glossary.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xHistory.
650 0 $aNationalism$zMiddle East.
650 0 $aSecularism$zMiddle East.
650 0 $aIslam and politics$zMiddle East.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001617.html