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The Modern Middle East: A History
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by James L. Gelvin
Sales Rank: 43188
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List Price: $37.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA July 23, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195167899
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195167894
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Reader Reviews
It is hard to overstate the value of this relatively short introduction to Middle Eastern history. Rather than attempting a traditional narrative, Gelvin's history emphasizes ways of conceptualizing Middle Eastern history, allowing readers to see, for example, the Constitutional Revolution in Iran and the the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire, as part of the same general process. This makes Gelvin's work unusually valuable for readers with some basic knowledge of the Middle East while helping newbies to understand the basic outlines of Modern Middle Eastern History without getting lost in a sea of names and dates. Gelvin is one of the brightest and most original thinkers in Middle Eastern studies today and, even when one disagrees with him, there is an intellectual verve here that is sure to engage. The weakness to Gelvin's thematic approach is that readers with limited background may sometimes feel the need to remind themselves of basic facts. If the glossary, timeline, and biographical sketches at the end of the book do not suffice for this, William L. Cleveland's A History of the Modern Middle East would make an excellent companion volume.
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