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A history of the modern Middle East : rulers, rebels, and rogues /
"Offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey, Iran, and the Arab countries of the Middle East, as well as topics ofte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : Islam and the Prophet's successors
- Birth of empires : the Ottoman and Safavid Empires through the 18th century
- Reform and rebellion : the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Qajar Iran in the 19th century
- Social transformations : workers and nationalists in Egypt, Mount Lebanon, and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century
- The Great War : Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire from revolution to World War I
- State formation and colonial control : Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan, and Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and 1930s
- Rebels and rogues : Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Palestine, and Israel in the interwar years
- Military coups : politics and violence : Iran, Turkey, and the Arab states, 1952-1980
- Cold war battles : the Suez Crisis, Arab-Israeli conflicts, and the Lebanese civil war
- Rulers for life : state construction, consolidation, and collapse
- Upheaval : Islamism, invasion, and rebellion from the 1990s into the 21st century
- Epilogue : revolution, reaction, and civil war.