Being modern in the Middle East : revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class / Keith David Watenpaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab nationalism.

Middle class--Arab countries.

Middle class.

Revolutions.

Social conflict--Arab countries.

Social conflict.

Civil society--Arab countries.

Civil society.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]

Summary:

"This is an original piece of scholarship that addresses interesting questions about an understudied and important aspect of Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean history. The product of a lively mind fed by broad reading, the book treats the reader to moments of wonderful insight based on new research."--Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia

"A remarkable book. It represents a major departure in the current historiography of the Middle East and is a significant contribution to the field."--Peter Sluglett, University of Utah

Contents:

Introduction : modernity, class, and the architectures of community

An eastern Mediterranean city on the eve of revolution

Being modern in a time of revolution : the revolution of 1908 and the beginnings of middle-class politics (1908-1918)

Ottoman precedents (I) : journalism, voluntary association, and the "true civilization" of the middle class

Ottoman precedents (II) : the technologies of the public sphere and the multiple deaths of the Ottoman citizen

Being modern in a moment of anxiety : the middle class makes sense of a "postwar" world (1918-1924) - historicism, nationalism, and violence

Rescuing the Arab from history : halab, Orientalist imaginings, Wilsonianism, and early Arabism

The persistence of empire at the moment of its collapse : Ottoman-Islamic identity and "new men" rebels

Remembering the great war : allegory, civic virtue, and conservative reaction

Being modern in an era of colonialism : middle-class modernity and the culture of the French mandate for Syria (1925-1946)

Deferring to the Aʻyan : the middle class and the politics of notables

Middle-class fascism and the transformation of civil violence : steel shirts, white badges, and the last Qabaday

Not quite Syrians : Aleppo's communities of collaboration

Coda : the incomplete project of middle-class modernity and the paradox of metropolitan desire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-316) and index.

ISBN:

0691121699

OCLC:

61162277

Publisher Number:

9780691121697