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Intro -- Family History in the Middle East -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Pronounciation -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction by Beshara Doumani -- I. Family and Household -- 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Philippe Fargues -- 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households by Tomoki Okawara -- 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family by Mary Ann Fay -- II: Family, Gender, and Property -- 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations by Annelies Moors -- 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- III: Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law -- 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Iris Agmon -- 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham by Heather Ferguson -- IV: Family as a Discourse -- 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno -- 12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar by Akram F. Khater -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social History of Labor in the Ottoman Empire: 1800-1914 -- 3 The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor Pains, Maturity, Metamorphosis -- 4 Making History, but Not of Their Own Choosing: Workers and the Labor Movement in Iran -- 5 Labor in Syria: The Emergence of New Identities -- 6 The Labor Movement in Israel: Ideology and Political Economy -- 7 Reading from Left to Right: The Social History of Egyptian Labor -- 8 The History of Labor and the Workers' Movement in North Africa -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.

"Cover " -- "Half Title " -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1: Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire " -- "Chapter 2: The First World War and the Ottoman Succession " -- "Chapter 3: The Second World War " -- "Chapter 4: The Cold War and the Establishment of Israel " -- "Chapter 5: Arab-Israeli Conventional Operations, 1967–1973 " -- "Chapter 6: British Military Withdrawal, the Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War " -- "Chapter 7: The Establishment of USCENTCOM, Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, and Operation Desert Storm " -- "Chapter 8: Containing Saddam, Jihad in Afghanistan, and Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. Homeland " -- "Chapter 9: The Iraq War and the Rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East " -- "Chapter 10: Summary " -- "Notes " -- "Selected Bibliography" -- "Index

The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three

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

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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.

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