The Modern Middle East: A History

by James L. Gelvin

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Extensively revised and updated in the wake of the Arab uprisings, the changes that they fostered, and the fault lines that they exposed, the fourth edition of The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in
the sixteenth century, this book examines the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century transformation, cultural continuities and upheavals, international diplomacy, economic booms and busts, the emergence of authoritarian regimes and the varied forms of resistance to them and
to imperialism in an area of vital concern to us all. The Modern Middle East: A History, Fourth Edition, is engagingly written-drawing from the author's own research and other studies-and enriched with maps and photographs, original documents, and an abundance of supplementary materials.
  • ISBN10 019021886X
  • ISBN13 9780190218867
  • Publish Date 16 July 2015 (first published 5 August 2004)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 November 2020
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Edition 4th Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 432
  • Language English