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A global Middle East : mobility, materiality and culture in the modern age, 1880-1940 /
The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East. These transformations, brought about by the emergence of the modern state system and an increasing interaction with a more globalized economy, irrevocably altered the political and social structures of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Library of Middle East history ;
v. 50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; List of Contributors ; Introduction Liat Kozma, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer; Global networks, local networking; 1. On scales and spaces: Reading Gottlieb Schumacher's The Jaulân (1888) Cyrus Schayegh; 2. The Emir and the sea: The rise and fall of 'Abdullāhi Muhammad b. 'Alī Abdaššakūr, Harär's last emir (1885-1887) Avishai Ben-Dror; People on the move; 3. Education and mobility: Universities in Cairo between competition and standardisation 1900-1950 Valeska Huber.
- 4. International migration and sex work in early twentieth-century Cairo Francesca Biancani5. Jews on the move during the late Ottoman period: Trends and some problems Yaron Ben-Naeh; A short piece; 6. Global migration into late Ottoman Jaffa as reflected in the Arab-Palestinian newspaper Filastīn (1911-1913) Evelin Dierauff; Objects and related practices on the move; 7. Papers for going, papers for staying: Identification and subject formation in the Eastern Mediterranean Will Hanley; 8. Travelling substances and their human carriers: Hashish-trafficking in Mandatory Palestine Haggai Ram.
- 9. On the diffusion of 'small' western technologies and consumer goods in the Middle East during the era of the first modern globalization Uri M. KupferschmidtA short piece; 10. Bees on camels: Technologies of movement in late Ottoman Palestine Tamar Novick; Ideas on the move; 11. Re-imagining Islam in the period of the first modern globalization: Muhammad 'Abduh and his Theology of Unity Johann Buessow; 12. New practices: Arab printing, publishing and mass reading Ami Ayalon; Short pieces; 13. The movement of feminist ideas: The case of Kadinlar Dünyasi Elife Biçer-Deveci.