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The modern Middle East : a history /

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This book is about the modern Middle East. Its underlying argument is that the eighteenth century marked a new phase in the evolution of world history. Two important characteristics distinguish modern history: a world economy unlike any that had existed before and a world system of nation-states. On...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gelvin, James L., 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2025].
Edition:Sixth edition.
Subjects:
Nationalism > Middle East > History.
Secularism > Middle East > History.
Islam and politics > Middle East > History.
Middle East > History.
Middle East > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I. THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE
  • Chapter 1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age
  • Chapter 2. Gunpowder Empires
  • Chapter 3. The Middle East and the Modern World System
  • Chapter 4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power
  • PART II. THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
  • Chapter 5. Defensive Developmentalism
  • Chapter 6. Imperialism
  • Chapter 7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation
  • Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century
  • Transformation and Its Aftermath
  • Chapter 8. The Life of the Mind
  • Chapter 9. Secularism and Modernity.