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Newly revised and updated to explain events that have occurred since the American occupation of Iraq, the second edition of The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, this book examines the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century tra... MORE

Vignettes and Maps	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
A Note on Transliteration	p. viii
Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective	p. 1
The Advent of the Modern Age	p. 9
From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age	p. 15
Gunpowder Empires	p. 27
The Middle East and the Modern World System	p. 35
War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of... MORE Power	p. 47
Documents	p. 60
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535	p. 60
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)	p. 61
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)	p. 63
Suggested Readings	p. 66
The Question of Modernity	p. 69
Defensive Developmentalism	p. 73
Imperialism	p. 88
Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation	p. 100
Photo Essay: The Great Transformation	p. 111
The Life of the Mind	p. 123
Secularism and Modernity	p. 132
Constitutionalism	p. 139
Documents	p. 147
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire	p. 147
The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane	p. 148
The Islahat Fermani	p. 150
The d'Arcy Oil Concession	p. 154
Algeria: Poetry of Loss	p. 157
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women	p. 158
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris	p. 160
Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity	p. 161
Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hurriyet	p. 163
The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907	p. 164
Suggested Readings	p. 167
World War and the Middle East State System	p. 171
State-Building by Decree	p. 175
State-Building by Revolution and Conquest	p. 186
The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism	p. 197
The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute	p. 206
Documents	p. 215
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919	p. 215
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question	p. 217
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917	p. 218
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky	p. 219
Suggested Readings	p. 220
The Contemporary Era	p. 223
State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship	p. 231
Oil	p. 247
The United States and the Middle East	p. 257
Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians	p. 271
The Iranian Revolution	p. 282
Islamic Political Movements	p. 294
Conclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization"	p. 304
Documents	p. 312
Speech Delivered by President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961	p. 312
Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day	p. 313
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242	p. 316
'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel	p. 317
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government	p. 319
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones	p. 320
Suggested Readings	p. 323
Timeline	p. 325
Biographical Sketches	p. 329
Glossary	p. 335
Credits	p. 344
Index	p. 346
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James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at UCLA. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2005), Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and numerous shorter works.

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