A History of the Modern Middle East

by Cleveland, William L.; Bunton, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780813348339
• ISBN10: 0813348331
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-04
• 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 American invasion of Iraq. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, A History of the Modern Middle Eastfocuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. Although built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, expertly crafted account. In updating this fifth edition of the late William Cleveland's popular introductory text, Martin Bunton provides a thorough account of the major transformative developments over the past four years, including a new chapter on the tumultuous Arab uprisings and the participation of Islamist parties in a new political order in the Middle East.

Author Biography

The late William L. Cleveland was professor of history at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver, British Columbia. Martin Bunton is an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria, Columbia. He is the editor of Land Legislation in Mandate Palestine.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface to the Fifth Edition	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
A Note About Place Names and Transliteration	p. xix
The Development of Islamic Civilization to the Eighteenth Century	p. 1
The Rise and Expansion of Islam	p. 4
The Development of Islamic Civilization to the Fifteenth Century	p. 18
The Ottoman and Safavid Empires: A New Imperial Synthesis	p. 34
The Beginnings of the Era of Transformation	p. 53
Forging a New Synthesis: The Pattern of Reforms, 1789-1849	p. 56
The Ottoman Empire and Egypt During the Era of the Tanzimat	p. 75
Egypt and Iran in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 95
The Response of Islamic Society	p. 109
The Era of the Young Turks and the Iranian Constitutionalists	p. 122
World War I and the End of the Ottoman Order	p. 137
The Struggle for Independence: The Interwar Era to the End of World War II	p. 159
Authoritarian Reform in Turkey and Iran	p. 162
The Arab Struggle for Independence: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the Interwar Era to 1945	p. 179
The Arab Struggle for Independence: Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the Interwar Era to 1945	p. 201
The Palestine Mandate and the Birth of the State of Israel	p. 221
The Independent Middle East from the End of World War II to the 1970s	p. 253
Democracy and Authoritarianism: Turkey and Iran	p. 255
The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: The Egyptian Base	p. 280
The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: The Radicalization of Arab Politics	p. 301
Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s	p. 322
The Resurgence of Islam: The Middle East from the 1970s to the 1991 Gulf War	p. 345
The Iranian Revolution and the Revival of Islam	p. 347
Changing Patterns of War and Peace: Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s	p. 369
The Arabian Peninsula in the Petroleum Era	p. 393
The Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in Syria and Iraq: The Regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn	p. 414
Challenges to the Existing Order: The Middle East in the 1990s and 2000s	p. 439
The Palestinian Intifada and the 1991 Gulf War	p. 441
A Peace so Near, a Peace so Far: Palestinian-Israeli Relations Since the 1991 Gulf War	p. 463
Patterns of Continuity and Change in Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon	p. 487
Americas Troubled Moment in the Middle East	p. 505
The 2011 Arab Uprisings	p. 522
Glossary	p. 541
Select Bibliography	p. 545
Index	p. 569
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