Being Modern in the Middle East : Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class /

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In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. The book explores the rise of a middle class of liberal professionals, white-collar employees, journalists, and businessmen during the first decades of the twentieth century in the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watenpaugh, Keith David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Arab nationalism.
Civil society > Arab countries.
Middle class > Arab countries.
Social conflict > Arab countries.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Agriculture (Chinese mythology).
Al-Jabiri.
Aleppo.
Arabs.
Armenians.
Armistice.
Bilad al-Sham.
Bourgeoisie.
Bureaucrat.
Censorship.
Cilicia.
Citizenship.
Civil society.
Civilization.
Class conflict.
Colonialism.
Communal violence.
Criticism.
Disenchantment.
Eastern Mediterranean.
Effendi.
Election.
Emancipation.
Emigration.
Ethnic cleansing.
Exclusion.
Fawaz.
French Colonial.
French colonial empire.
Gaziantep.
Governance.
Hashemites.
Hegemony.
High Commissioner.
Historicism.
Historiography.
Ibrahim Hananu.
Ideology.
Imperialism.
Institution.
Interwar period.
Islamism.
Jews.
Journalism.
Kamil.
Kemalism.
League of Nations.
Lecture.
Legitimacy (political).
Liberalism.
Literature.
Middle East.
Middle class.
Military occupation.
Modernity.
National identity.
Nationalism.
New men.
Newspaper.
Of Education.
Oral history.
Ottoman Empire.
Ottomanism.
Pan-Arabism.
Political party.
Political philosophy.
Political structure.
Politician.
Politics.
Politique.
Precedent.
Princeton University Press.
Public opinion.
Public sphere.
Refugee.
Rhetoric.
Sectarianism.
Secularism.
Separatism.
Social class.
Social exclusion.
Sovereignty.
State of Syria (1924-30).
Sykes-Picot Agreement.
Syrian nationalism.
Syrians.
Tanzimat.
Tax.
Technology.
War crime.
Wealth.
Western Europe.
Western world.
Westernization.
Wilsonianism.
World War I.
Writing.
Young Turk Revolution.
Zionism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1. Introduction: Modernity, Class, and the Architectures of Community
  • 2. An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution
  • Section I. Being Modern in a Time of Revolution: The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of Middle-Class Politics (1908-1918)
  • Introduction
  • 3. Ottoman Precedents (I): Journalism, Voluntary Association, and the "True Civilization" of the Middle Class
  • 4. Ottoman Precedents (II): The Technologies of the Public Sphere and the Multiple Deaths of the Ottoman Citizen
  • Section II. Being Modern in a Moment of Anxiety: The Middle Class Makes Sense of A "Postwar" World (1918-1924)-Historicism, Nationalism, and Violence
  • Introduction
  • 5. Rescuing the Arab from History: Halab, Orientalist Imaginings, Wilsonianism, and Early Arabism
  • 6. The Persistence of Empire at the Moment of Its Collapse: Ottoman-Islamic Identity and "New Men" Rebels
  • 7. Remembering the Great War: Allegory, Civil Virtue, and Conservative Reaction
  • Section III. Being Modern in an Era of Colonialism: Middle-Class Modernity and the Culture of the French Mandate for Syria (1924-1946)
  • Introduction
  • 8. Deferring to the A'yan: The Middle-Class and the Politics of Notables
  • 9. Middle-Class Fascism and the Transformation of Civil Violence: Steel Shirts, White Badges, and the Last Qabaday
  • 10. Not Quite Syrians: Aleppo's Communities of Collaboration
  • 11. Coda: The Incomplete Project of Middle-Class Modernity and the Paradox of Metropolitan Desire
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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