A History of the Modern Middle East

by Cleveland, William L.

• ISBN13: 9780813340487
• ISBN10: 0813340489
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-22
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, Cleveland focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. While built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, carefully crafted account. The revised and updated second edition of this benchmark text includes information on the Middle East since the close of the Cold War, and a new section on civil society and Islamic politics in the 1990s.

Author Biography

William Cleveland is professor of history at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

The rise and expansion of Islam	p. 5
The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century	p. 19
The Ottoman and Safavid empires : a new imperial synthesis	p. 37
Forging a new synthesis : the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849	p. 61
The Ottoman empire and Egypt during the era of the Tanzimat	p. 81
Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century	p. 103
The response of Islamic society	p. 119
The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists	p. 133
World War I and the end of the Ottoman order	p. 149
Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran	p. 175
The Arab struggle for independence : Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the interwar era to 1945	p. 193
The Arab struggle for independence : Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the interwar era to 1945	p. 217
The Palestine mandate and the birth of the state of Israel	p. 239
Democracy and authoritarianism : Turkey and Iran	p. 275
The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the Egyptian base	p. 301
The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the radicalization of Arab politics	p. 323
Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s	p. 345
Changing patterns of war and peace : Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s	p. 373
The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq : the regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn	p. 397
The Iranian revolution and the resurgence of Islam	p. 423
The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era	p. 451
Challenges to the existing order : the Palestinian uprising and the Gulf War	p. 473
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