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Joel Beinin's 2001 survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly and compellingly how the lives, experiences and culture of working people can inform our historical understanding. Beginning in the middle of the eighteenth century, the book charts the history of peasants, urban artisans and modern working-classes across the lands of the Ottoman empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states, including the Balkans, Turkey, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Inspired by the approach of the Indian Subaltern Studies school, the book is the first to offer a synthesized critical assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of this region for the last twenty years. It offers insights into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find it rich in narrative detail, and accessible and authoritative in presentation

Overview: This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, A History of the Modern Middle East focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. Although built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, expertly crafted account. In updating this fifth edition of the late William Cleveland's popular introductory text, Martin Bunton provides a thorough account of the major transformative developments over the past four years, including a new chapter on the tumultuous Arab uprisings and the participation of Islamist parties in a new political order in the Middle East. This comprehensive work provides an analysis of the last two centuries of Middle Eastern history, from the rise of the Safavids and Ottomans to the recent Gulf War. Explains the deep historical currents flowing beneath today's headlines--essential reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of today's turbulent world. Photos. Maps

Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Inspiring Past and Dark Future -- Chapter 2: Expansion and Decline -- Chapter 3: Child of Empire - an Imperial Heritage -- Chapter 4: The Jewel in the Crown -- Chapter 5: First Exposure - Suez and Beyond -- Chapter 6: An Aden Childhood -- Chapter 7: Retreat from East of Suez -- Chapter 8: Oil, Arms and Iran -- Chapter 9: Scholar to Soldier -- Chapter 10: 'New World Order' - Part I (1979) -- Chapter 11: Lending Style to Vulgar Brawls -- Chapter 12: Soldier in the Sand -- Chapter 13: 'New World Order' - Part II (1989) -- Plate section -- Chapter 14: Eastward Ho! - the Liberation of Kuwait -- Chapter 15: Iraq: Round One -- Chapter 16: The Mould Breaks -- Chapter 17: Belgium and the Balkans -- Chapter 18: Scholar to Soldier, Again -- Chapter 19: Rise of the Jihadists -- Chapter 20: The Aftermath -- Chapter 21: Crisis on the Tigris -- Chapter 22: Jihad versus 'the Surge' - a Clash of Strategies -- Chapter 23: Lawrence Redux -- Chapter 24: Change of Presidents -- Chapter 25: The Arab Spring -- Chapter 26: The Rise of Islamic State -- Epilogue -- Index -- Back Cover.

Oriente Medio es una región de gran importancia estratégica para el resto del mundo. Dada su situación geoestratégica, Oriente Medio ha sido un cruce de caminos de importancia histórica y sigue siéndolo aún hoy. Además de su importancia estratégica, el magnetismo cultural de Oriente Medio ha atraído grandes potencias extrarregionales a la zona durante siglos. Hoy, como en el pasado, Oriente Medio desempeña un papel importante en la política exterior de la Unión Europea. Sin embargo, la Unión Europea no tiene un enfoque único y general para la conducción de sus relaciones con Oriente Medio. En cambio, tiene un conjunto de políticas entrelazadas hacia subregiones específicas, países y áreas problemáticas. Entre estas destacan las relaciones euromediterráneas; el conflicto palestino-israelí; el diálogo UE-CCG; la cuestión nuclear iraní; las relaciones con Turquía; la guerra en Siria, entre otras. Este estudio se centra en la política de la Unión Europea en estos espacios y cuestiones que, hoy, siguen siendo temas de máxima actualidad regional e internacional. ; The Middle East is a region of great strategic importance to the rest of the world. Given its geostrategic situation, the Middle East has been a crossroads of historical importance and remains so to this day. In addition to its strategic importance, the cultural magnetism of the Middle East has attracted great extraregional powers to the area for centuries. Today, as in the past, the Middle East plays an important role in eu foreign policy. However, the EU does not have a single and comprehensive approach to conducting its relations with the Middle East. Instead, it has a set of policies intertwined towards specific subregions, countries and problem areas. These include Euro-Mediterranean relations; The Israeli-Palestinian conflict; The EU-GCC dialogue; The Iranian nuclear issue; Relations with Turkey; The war in Syria, among others. This study focuses on EU policy in these areas and issues, which, to date, remain the most topical regional and international policy issues.

Commonly, the course in medieval Middle Eastern history serves many purposes. Not only must it detail the changes that transformed the Middle East from the seventh thru the eighteenth centuries but also it should introduce and analyze the rich diversity of pre-modern Islamic society, institutions, politics, and culture. Thus, considerable variation exists in historical treatments of the medieval Middle East. Nevertheless, at present most of these courses are chronological surveys which tend to emphasize political history, although a large number of offerings are topically arranged and give separate attention to many of the several aspects of traditional Middle Eastern civilization and institutions. Actually, the differences between these two orientations are mainly ones of emphasis. For instance, few topically arranged courses ignore the chronological factor in analyzing change.

mundo. Dada su situación geoestratégica, Oriente Medio ha sido un cruce
de caminos de importancia histórica y sigue siéndolo aún hoy. Además de su
importancia estratégica, el magnetismo cultural de Oriente Medio ha atraído
grandes potencias extrarregionales a la zona durante siglos. Hoy, como en el
pasado, Oriente Medio desempeña un papel importante en la política exterior de
la Unión Europea. Sin embargo, la Unión Europea no tiene un enfoque único y
general para la conducción de sus relaciones con Oriente Medio. En cambio, tiene
un conjunto de políticas entrelazadas hacia subregiones específicas, países y áreas
problemáticas. Entre estas destacan las relaciones euromediterráneas; el conflicto
palestino-israelí; el diálogo UE-CCG; la cuestión nuclear iraní; las relaciones con
Turquía; la guerra en Siria, entre otras. Este estudio se centra en la política de la
Unión Europea en estos espacios y cuestiones que, hoy, siguen siendo temas de
máxima actualidad regional e internacional.

The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives.

This book surveys the main conflicts and insurgencies in recent Middle East history, focusing mainly on the period since the 1980s and taking a historical-analytical approach.

The past few years have seen the rise in the use of computers and quantitative techniques for the study of the Middle East. My recent article "Quantitative Research on the Middle East in Islamic Times," American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter, 93 (Spring, 1975), 4–15 established this fact statistically, and a follow-up article in the Bulletin, "New Trends in the Use of the Computer for the Study of the Middle East," Volume IX, Number 3 (October 1, 1975), pp. 16–26, reported several ongoing projects relating to the use of computers, both with and without the simultaneous use of quantitative techniques. This article is an update of the latter article.