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- English
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About this book
This volume explores major theoretical and empirical themes in the study of the economic history of the Middle East.
Despite the relative neglect of economic history in Middle Eastern studies, this book makes a case for its importance as a discipline of study. On the one hand, it shows promise in illuminating the economic base of historical trends and events; on the other, it can elucidate the historical foundations of economic continuity and change. The chapters employ an array of theoretical and methodological approaches and ultimately demonstrate how economics and history, along with political economy, complement each other in studying the Middle East. Among the substantive topics explored are the trajectories of the Arab Spring, institutional change and economic development in the early Ottoman Empire, the destructive effects of the reordering property rights in Iraq by the American-led occupation authority, the evolution of the political economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the determinants of movements in the yields of Egyptian and Ottoman sovereign debt following political and economic crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The book will be of interest to scholars and students of economic history, political economy, and the Middle East.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Major Works of E. Roger Owen
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 The Odysseys of Economic History: Introduction and Overview
- 2 Bread (Rawls) + Freedom (Sen) = Social Justice?: Religion and Economics in the Egyptian Spring
- 3 Business as Usual: Islamist Governments, Growth, and Distribution After the Arab Spring
- 4 Begging, Stealing, and Striking: Labor Resistance and Survival in Interwar Egypt
- 5 Politics of Property in the Global Market Economy All the Way to DAESH
- 6 Green, Grey, and Brown: Failed Revolutions of Arab Economies: Three Revolutions and Discontinuous Economic Growth
- 7 The Middle Class in Development: Egypt and Saudi Arabia During the Oil Boom (1973–1983) and Since
- 8 The Iranian Economy and Contradictions of the Islamic Republic in Historical Perspective
- 9 Institutions and the Early Modern Ottoman Economy
- 10 Determinants of Movements in Egyptian and Ottoman Sovereign Debt Yields in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- 11 The Global Oil Economy and the Emergence of Peaceful Democratic Europe
- 12 The Economic Thought of al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī
- Index