A history of the modern Middle East /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cleveland, William L.
Other Authors: Bunton, Martin P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2009]
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The rise and expansion of Islam
  • The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century
  • The Ottoman and Safavid Empires : a new imperial synthesis
  • Forging a new synthesis : the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849
  • The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the tanzimat
  • Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century
  • The response of Islamic society
  • The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists
  • World war I and the end of the Ottoman order
  • Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran
  • The Arab struggle for independence : Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the interwar era to 1945
  • The Arab struggle for independence : Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the interwar era to 1945
  • The Palestine mandate and the birth of the state of Israel
  • Democracy and authoritarianism : Turkey and Iran
  • The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the Egyptian base
  • The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the radicalization of Arab politics
  • Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s
  • Changing patterns of war and peace : Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s
  • The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq : the regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn
  • The Iranian revolution and the resurgence of Islam
  • The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era
  • Challenges to the existing order : the Palestinian uprising and the 1991 Gulf War
  • A peace so near, a peace so far : Israeli-Palestinian relations since the Gulf War
  • Patterns of continuity and change since the 1991 Gulf War
  • America's troubled moment in the Middle East.