The Modern Middle East

This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women's histories of the region over its political and economic history. The second edition includes a new chapter on the media revolution and the effect of media globalization on the Middle East, and a revised and expanded discussion on modern Iranian history.

ISBN 041554372X   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780415543729 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 748 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Previous ISBN 9780415214094 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 23 Dec 2009   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 956.04   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

Introduction		Whose 'modern times'?		1
1		The political and economic background		17
2		The rural history of the Middle East in the twentieth century		61
3		Urban history		115
4		Popular culture: music, dance and poetry		165
5		The history of the written word		187
6		Performing arts: on stage and on screen		211
7		Histories of Middle Eastern women		225
8		The many faces of Islam in the twenty-first century		271
9		The media revolution		293
10		The globalized Middle East in the twenty-first century: three final aspects		305
		Notes		315
		Bibliography		335
		Picture credits		351
		Index		353

'An important survey of the vital and much-neglected cultural and social history of the region.' -- John Chalcraft, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK 'In his expansive survey of Middle Eastern history over the last century, Ilan Pappe questions modernization as the best framework for understanding the history and seeks to provide an alternative that devotes much-needed attention to the ways in which non-elite groups were affected by, and participated in, the dramatic political, social, economic and cultural transformations of the period.' -- Zachary Lockman, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, USA 'Pappe directly challenges the negative stereotype of the Middle East as an undemocratic and pre-modern zone. He does this in an engaging manner, weaving his accessible narrative through chapters on political and economic history, rural history, popular music, the print and visual media, histories of Middle Eastern women, Islam and the region in the globalised 21st Century.' -- The Times Higher Educational Supplement

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