Kingmakers The Invention Of The Modern Middle East

Author : Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393342437

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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East by Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer Pdf

A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel’s godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.

Author : James L. Gelvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 019007406X

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The Modern Middle East by James L. Gelvin Pdf

"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 Middle East over the course of the past 500 years" --

Author : Albert Hourani,Philip Shukry Khoury,Mary Christina Wilson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082419

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The Modern Middle East by Albert Hourani,Philip Shukry Khoury,Mary Christina Wilson Pdf

Introduction - Albert Hourani. Part 1: Reforming elites and changing relations with Europe 1789-1918; Introduction , the Ottoman Umela and Westernisation in the time of Selim III and Mahmud II , Turkish Attitudes concerning Christian-Muslim equality in the 19th century, Ottoman reform and the politics of Notables, Egypt and Europe - from French expedition to British occupation, war and society under the young Turks, social change in Persia in the 19th century. Part 2: Transformations in society and the economy; introduction, Middle East economic development 1815-1914 - the general and the specific, the origins of private ownership of land in Egypt - a reapraisal, decline of the family economy in mid 19th century Egypt, Ottoman women, households and textile manufacturing 1800-1914, Said Bey - the everyday life of an Istanbul townsman at the beginning of th 20th century, the crowd in the Persian Revolution, Cairo. Part 3: The construction of Nationalist ideologies and politics to the 1950s; introduction, religion and secularism in Turkey, from Ottomanism to Arabism - the origin of an ideology, 1919 labour upsurge and national revolution, Syrian urban politics in transition - the quarters of Damascus during the French mandate, the role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt, of the diversity of Iraquis and their society. Part 4: The Middle East since the Second World War; introduction, consequences of the Suez Crisis in the Arab world, Arab military in politics - from the revolutionary plot to authoritarian state, political power and the Saudi state, Iranian revolutions in comparative perspective, the religious right, dilemas of the Jewish state, hazards of modernity and morality - women state and ideology in contemporary Iran.

Author : Martin Gutmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031378294

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The Unseen Leader by Martin Gutmann Pdf

The Unseen Leader delivers one simple but immensely powerful point: we need to radically rethink how we discuss leadership. In this book, American historian Martin Gutmann passionately challenges the received wisdom that history's great leaders were individuals with a proclivity for action and brash words. Drawing on extensive historical scholarship and contemporary leadership theory, Gutmann delves into the journeys of four unknown or misunderstood leaders who achieved remarkable successes in vastly different environments—the Polar North, the deserts of Arabia, the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and Second World War London. What emerges is an entirely new narrative on leadership. Contrary to the perception of heroic protagonists forging ahead boldly, history's truly great leaders were often precisely those who didn't need to generate excessive noise or activity. Instead, they skillfully minimized dramatic circumstances. Their stories challenge our present-day conception of leadership and can inspire the leaders of tomorrow.

Author : Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.,Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429850455

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A Concise History of the Middle East by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.,Ibrahim Al-Marashi Pdf

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this turbulent region. Spanning from pre-Islam to the present day, it explores the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West, modernization efforts in the Middle East, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab–Israel conflict, the reassertion of Islamic values and power, the issues surrounding the Palestinian Question, and the Middle East post-9/11 and post-Arab uprisings. The twelfth edition has been fully revised to reflect the most recent events in, and concerns of, the region, including the presence of ISIS and other non-state actors, the civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and the refugee crisis. New parts and part timelines will help students grasp and contextualize the long and complicated history of the region. With updated biographical sketches and glossary, and a new concluding chapter, this book remains the quintessential text for students of Middle East history.

Author : Nelida Fuccaro
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804797764

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Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East by Nelida Fuccaro Pdf

This book explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. Violence and the city coexist in a complicated dialogue, and critical consideration of the city offers an important way to understand the transformative powers of violence—its ability to redraw the boundaries of urban life, to create and divide communities, and to affect the ruling strategies of local elites, governments, and transnational political players. The essays included in this volume reflect the diversity of Middle Eastern urbanism from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, from the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad to the provincial towns of Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil settlements of Dhahran and Abadan. In reconstructing the violent pasts of cities, new vistas on modern Middle Eastern history are opened, offering alternative and complementary perspectives to the making and unmaking of empires, nations, and states. Given the crucial importance of urban centers in shaping the Middle East in the modern era, and the ongoing potential of public histories to foster dialogue and reconciliation, this volume is both critical and timely.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : OSU:32437121901876

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Naval Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Publisher : Hurst
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849045049

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The First World War in the Middle East by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen Pdf

The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and a half million casualties. It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war.

Author : Andrea L. Stanton,Edward Ramsamy,Carolyn M. Elliott,Peter J. Seybolt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1977 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412981767

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Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa by Andrea L. Stanton,Edward Ramsamy,Carolyn M. Elliott,Peter J. Seybolt Pdf

These volumes convey what daily life is like in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Entries will aid readers in understanding the importance of cultural sociology, to appreciate the effects of cultural forces around the world.

Author : Curt Prüfer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786733184

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Germany's Covert War in the Middle East by Curt Prüfer Pdf

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of the fragile Ottoman-German alliance from the perspective of a participant. Much like fellow soldier-scholar T.E. Lawrence, Prufer and his colleagues tried to steal the loyalties of the Muslim subjects of the opposing sides. The book explores these episodes of sabotage, subversion and subterfuge - from managing spies to preparing for the attack on the Suez Canal in 1915 - and in the process sheds light onto the ways World War I played out across the Middle East. Complemented throughout by in-depth and meticulously researched footnotes, this primary source collection is an invaluable addition to the extant corpus of late Ottoman and World War I historical documents.

Author : C. Brad Faught
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780300256741

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Cairo 1921 by C. Brad Faught Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine--the future state of Israel. No other conference had such an enduring impact on the region. C. Brad Faught demonstrates how the conference, although dominated by the British with limited local participation, was an ambitious if ultimately unsuccessful attempt to move the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism. Faught reveals that many officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, were driven by the determination for state building in the area to succeed. Their prejudices, combined with their abilities, would profoundly alter the Middle East for decades to come.

Author : Lorenzo Kamel
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788868128289

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The Frailty of Authority by Lorenzo Kamel Pdf

Governance failures, combined with 21st-century social, economic, environmental and demographic conditions, have all contributed to paving the way for the rise of highly heterogeneous non-state and quasi-state actors in the Middle East. Has the state, then, been irremediably undermined, or will the current transition lead to the emergence of new state entities? How can the crumbling of states and the redrawing of borders be reconciled with the exacerbation of traditional inter-state competition, including through proxy wars? How can a new potential regional order be framed and imagined? This volume provides a historical background and policy answers to these and a number of other related questions, analysing developments in the region from the standpoint of the interplay between disintegration and polarization.

Author : Sarah Tenney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538122488

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Historical Dictionary of Arab and Islamic Organizations by Sarah Tenney Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Arab and Islamic Organizations focuses on international and regional organizations primarily in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. With more than 300 cross-referenced entries, this volume includes both major and minor organizations. While the emphasis is on intergovernmental institutions, it also covers non-governmental organizations, key countries, movements, and prominent figures in the Arab and Islamic world. Like other dictionaries of this type, it includes an introductory essay, chronology of major events, and a select bibliography for further reading. It provides a solid starting point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the subject.

Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849047968

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The Near East by Arthur Cotterell Pdf

This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline of the civilizations and cultures that dominated the region, one that has had an immense impact on the development of humankind, ever since the ancient Sumerians invented urban living and writing around 3200 BCE. Later, the Babylonians and the Assyrians built upon the Sumerian legacy. They were the world's earliest great powers, whose actions in the cradle of monotheism influenced Judaism and, eventually, Christianity and Islam. The Near East discusses the long eras of Arab, Persian and Ottoman rule, and the destabilizing intervention of Western colonial powers. Cotterell's book is a timely reminder of how historical events have shaped the outlooks of various peoples, just as political turbulence in the Near East is challenging both neighboring countries and the wider world.

Author : James L. Gelvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : OCLC:1411251632

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The Modern Middle East by James L. Gelvin Pdf