Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions

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• Histories of the Modern Middle East *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Tables and Figures vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• 1 - Doing History:Modern Middle Eastern Studies Today 1
• Notes *
• Part 1 - New Dimensions of Modernizing Processes 19
• 2 - The Great Ottoman Debasement,1808–1844: a Political Economy Framework 21
• Notes *
• 3 - A Prelude to Ottoman Reform:Ibn 'Ābidīn on Custom and Legal Change 37
• Notes *
• 4 - The Damascus Affair and the Beginnings of France's Empire in the Middle East 63
• Notes *
• 5 - The Gender of Modernity: Reflections from Iranian Historiography 75
• Notes *

• Histories of the Modern Middle East *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Tables and Figures vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• 1 - Doing History:Modern Middle Eastern Studies Today 1
• Notes *
• Part 1 - New Dimensions of Modernizing Processes 19
• 2 - The Great Ottoman Debasement,1808–1844: a Political Economy Framework 21
• Notes *
• 3 - A Prelude to Ottoman Reform:Ibn 'Ābidīn on Custom and Legal Change 37
• Notes *
• 4 - The Damascus Affair and the Beginnings of France's Empire in the Middle East 63
• Notes *
• 5 - The Gender of Modernity: Reflections from Iranian Historiography 75
• Notes *
• Part 2 - Globalization Then and Now 93
• 6 - From Liberalism to Liberal Imperialism:Lord Cromer and the First Wave of Globalization in Egyp 95
• Notes *
• 7 - Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Classes in the Middle East 113
• Notes *
• Part 3 - Recovering Lost Voices in the Age of Colonialism 135
• 8 - Exploring the Field: Lost Voices and Emerging Practices in Egypt, 1882–1914 137
• Notes *
• 9 - Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah Al-Nadim's Dialogues About the Family 155
• Notes *
• 10 - Shaikh Al-Ra'Is and Sultan Abdūlhamid Ii: the Iranian Dimension of Pan-Islam 167
• Notes *
• Part 4 - Constructing Identities, Defining Nations 187
• 11 - Recruitment for the “victorious Soldiers of Muhammad” in the Arab Provinces, 1826–1828 189
• Notes *
• 12 - The Politics of History and Memory:A Multidimensional Analysis of the Lausanne Peace Conference, 1922–1923 207
• Notes *
• 13 - Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine:The Half-Full Glass? 229
• Notes *
• 14 - Manly Men on a National Stage (and the Women Who Make Them Stars) 247
• Notes *
• Part 5 - Conclusion 277
• 15 - The Return of the Concrete? 279
• Notes *
• Glossary 287
• Bibliography 289
• The Contributors 311
• Index 315
• About the Book 325