The modern Middle East / Ilan Pappé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pappé, Ilan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.

Middle East.

Politics and government.

Middle East--Economic conditions--20th century.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Contents:

Introduction: Whose 'modern times'? 1

Theories of modernization 2

Alternative views? 9

1 Political history 15

The Ottoman heritage 15

The colonial heritage 19

The shaping of the map, 1918-45 21

The great evacuation, 1945-62 27

Under the shadow of Palestine, 1967-87 29

A unipower world, 1987-2000 35

2 Economic history 39

The urge to transform, 1850-1918 41

Integrating into the world economy, 1918-45 43

Hope and its demise, 1945-72 45

Openness and its price, 1974-91 49

The waning magic of oil 52

3 The rural history of the Middle East in the twentieth century 59

The fast pace of change: the end of self-subsistence and autonomy 61

The colonial invasion of rural space 68

Under the yoke or blessing of independence 74

The anatomy of failure 77

The balance sheet of the Green Revolution 88

The slow pace of history: recurring patterns of rural and tribal life 93

The history of the clan and the family 93

Ruralization versus urbanization: the transformation of values, hierarchies and social structures 97

The case of Shaykh Ahmad al-Alawi 98

The transformation of tribal space in the twentieth century 99

The ambivalent history of tribalism and kinship 105

4 Urban history 113

Questions of categorization 115

The demographic factor 117

The working class and labour 122

The history of trade unionism and communism: the first half of the twentieth century 124

The Egyptian case 126

The unique case of Iraq 127

Missed opportunities in Palestine 130

Trade unionism under independence: the case of North Africa 131

The historiographical debate over trade unionism 133

The history of the urban middle class: the late nineteenth century 135

The politicization of the notables and middle class: effendis and pashas 135

A changing political culture: the loss of the multicultural city 139

Urban political culture under independence 141

New faces to the Middle Eastern city 145

The preoccupation with security 148

Living under the threat of nationalization 151

Survival mechanisms and networks 155

The new face of the city: the history of the unemployed 157

5 Popular culture: music, dance and poetry 163

Music in the twentieth century 165

The Egyptian trio 166

The Ra'i heritage 173

The modern history of the ud 174

Dancing with the living and the dead 176

The poetics of the century 179

6 The history of the written word 183

The press revolution, 1815-1900 184

The novel: early beginnings 187

The place of Naguib Mahfouz 189

The short novel 192

Motifs of the twentieth century 193

Freedom of speech and writing 197

The language of culture 202

7 Theatre, cinema, radio and television 207

The stage 207

The history of film 215

The electronic media revolution 218

8 Histories of Middle Eastern women 223

The construction of an autonomous space 225

Men in the service of feminism 232

'Women worthies' 239

Nationalism and feminism 245

Women and political Islam 254

Economic change and the position of women 262

9 The many faces of Islam in the twenty-first century 269

Political Islam as an intellectual discourse 270

The personal space of Islamic traditions 281

Iran: the exception or the rule? 285

10 The globalized Middle East in the twenty-first century: three final aspects 291

Prospects for a new economic future? 291

The perils of over-urbanization: the basis for future unrest and revolutions? 293

The struggle for the soul: the new media and the challenge of political Islam 296

The future: saints, libraries and satellites 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-332) and index.

ISBN:

0415214084

0415214092

OCLC:

58647932