Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East: Second Edition [Paperback]

Edmund Burke III (Editor), David Yaghoubian (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0520246616 | ISBN-13: 978-0520246614 | Publication Date: December 12, 2005 | Edition: 2

Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history--depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East--from Morocco to Afghanistan--in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern Middle Eastern history "from the bottom up." Spanning the past 160-plus years and reflecting important transformations, these stories challenge elite-centered accounts of what has occurred in the Middle East and illuminate the previously hidden corners of a largely unrecorded world.

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About the Author

Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor, with David Prochaska, of After the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History and Theory (2005) and coeditor, with Ira M. Lapidus, of Islam, Politics, and Social Movements (California, 1990). David N. Yaghoubian is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.

Product Details

• Paperback: 434 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; 2 edition (December 12, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520246616
• ISBN-13: 978-0520246614
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)