James L. Gelvin
Each Part end with Suggested Readings
Vignettes and maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
New to this Edition
Introduction
PART I. THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE
1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age
2. Gunpowder Empires
3.
The Middle East and the Modern World System
4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power
Documents
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanamé(1)
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanamé (2)
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535
The
Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)
PART II. THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
5. Defensive Developmentalism
6. Imperialism
7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century
Transformation
Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation and Its Aftermath
8. The Life of the Mind
9. Secularism and Modernity
10. Constitutionalism
Documents
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire
The Hatt-i Sharif of
Gulhane
The Islahat Fermani
The d'Arcy Oil Concession
Algeria: The Poetry of Loss
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women
Rifaca Rafic al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris
Muhammad cAbduh: The Theology of Unity
Namik Kemal: Extract
from the Journal H:urriyet
The Supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907
PART III. WORLD WAR I AND THE MIDDLE EAST STATE SYSTEM
11. State-Building by Decree
12. State-Building by Revolution and Conquest
13. The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms
14. The
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Documents
An Arab Soldier in the Ottoman Army
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the
Last Andalusian Sky
PART IV. THE CONTEMPORARY ERA
15. The Autocratic State
16. Oil
17. The United States and the Middle East
18. Resistance
Conclusion. A New Middle East?
Documents
Speech Delivered by President Gamal cAbd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the Occasion
of Victory Day on 23 December 1961
Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day
Ali Shariati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones
"Statement of the April 6 Movement Regarding the Demands of the Youth
and the Refusal to Negotiate with Any Side"
Yassir al-Manawahly: "The International Monetary Fund"
Timeline
Biographical Sketches
Glossary
Credits
Index
INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES
PowerPoint Slides
Primary Source Questions
Questions for Instructors
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STUDENT RESOURCES
Flashcards
Interactive Timeline
Chapter Quiz
James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017), The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (2015), The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years
of War (2014), Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1999), and numerous shorter works. He is also coeditor of Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print (2013).
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
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