A History of the Modern Middle East

Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues

Betty S. Anderson

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780804783248
• eBook ISBN: 9780804798754
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

A History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey, Iran, and the Arab countries of the Middle East, as well as areas often left out of Middle East history—such as the Balkans and the changing roles that Western forces have played in the region for centuries—to discuss the larger contexts and influences on the region's cultural and political development. Enriched by the perspectives of workers and professionals; urban merchants and provincial notables; slaves, students, women, and peasants, as well as political leaders, the book maps the complex social interrelationships and provides a pivotal understanding of the shifting shapes of governance and trajectories of social change in the Middle East.

Extensively illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, this text skillfully integrates a diverse range of actors and influences to construct a narrative that is at once sophisticated and lucid. A History of the Modern Middle East highlights the region's complexity and variation, countering easy assumptions about the Middle East, those who governed, and those they governed—the rulers, rebels, and rogues who shaped a region.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Contents
• Boxes
• Illustrations
• Maps
• Preface
• Prologue. Islam and the Prophet’s Successors
• 1. Birth of Empires: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires through the 18th Century
• 2. Reform and Rebellion: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Qajar Iran in the 19th Century
• 3. Social Transformations: Workers and Nationalists in Egypt, Mount Lebanon, and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century
• 4. The Great War: Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire from Revolution to World War I
• 5. State Formation and Colonial Control: Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan, and Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and 1930s
• 6. Rebels and Rogues: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Palestine, and Israel in the Interwar Years
• 7. Military Coups: Politics and Violence. Iran, Turkey, and the Arab States, 1952–1980
• 8. Cold War Battles: The Suez Crisis, Arab-Israeli Conflicts, and the Lebanese Civil War
• 9. Rulers for Life: State Construction, Consolidation, and Collapse
• 10. Upheaval: Islamism, Invasion, and Rebellion from the 1990s into the 21st Century
• Epilogue. Revolution, Reaction, and Civil War
• Note on Transliteration
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index