Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780521621212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 226 str.

Joel Beinin

Opis

The working people, who constitute the majority in any society, can be and deserve to be subjects of history. Joel Beinin's state-of-the-art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly how their lives, experiences, and culture can inform our historical understanding. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the book charts the history of the peasants and the modern working classes across the lands of the Ottoman Empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states. Inspired by the approach of the Indian subaltern Studies school, the book presents a synthetic assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of the region for over thirty years. Students will find it rich in detail, and accessible in presentation.

Recenzje

'… state of the art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East … the book is the first to present a synthetic critical assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of this region for the last twenty years. it offers new insight 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.' Discourse

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The world capitalist market, provincial regimes and local producers, 1750–1839; 2. Ottoman reform and European Imperialism, 1839–1907; 3. The rise of mass politics, 1908–39; 4. Fikri al-Khuli's journey to al-Mahalla al-Kubra; 5. Populist nationalism, state-led development and authoritarian regimes, 1939–73; 6. Post-populist reformation of the working-class and peasantry.