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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conflict.
Middle class.
Civil society.
Arab nationalism.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Societe civile > États arabes.
Nationalisme arabe.
Civil society > Arab countries.
Social conflict > Arab countries.
Middle class > Arab countries.
Arab countries.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : modernity, class, and the architectures of community
  • An eastern Mediterranean city on the eve of revolution
  • Being modern in a time of revolution : the revolution of 1908 and the beginnings of middle-class politics (1908-1918)
  • Ottoman precedents (I) : journalism, voluntary association, and the "true civilization" of the middle class
  • Ottoman precedents (II) : the technologies of the public sphere and the multiple deaths of the Ottoman citizen
  • Being modern in a moment of anxiety : the middle class makes sense of a "postwar" world (1918-1924)
  • historicism, nationalism, and violence
  • Rescuing the Arab from history : halab, Orientalist imaginings, Wilsonianism, and early Arabism
  • The persistence of empire at the moment of its collapse : Ottoman-Islamic identity and "new men" rebels
  • Remembering the great war : allegory, civic virtue, and conservative reaction
  • Being modern in an era of colonialism : middle-class modernity and the culture of the French mandate for Syria (1925-1946)
  • Deferring to the Aʻyan : the middle class and the politics of notables
  • Middle-class fascism and the transformation of civil violence : steel shirts, white badges, and the last Qabaday
  • Not quite Syrians : Aleppo's communities of collaboration
  • Coda : the incomplete project of middle-class modernity and the paradox of metropolitan desire.

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