The Middle East in Modern World History

ISBN-13: 9781138491908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 396 str.

Ernest Tucker

Opis

The Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these were affected by the region’s development. Supported by maps, images, questions, further reading, a chronology and glossary, it is ideal for students of the history of the modern Middle East in a global context.

Spis treści

List of Figures List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Note on Transliteration Chapter 1: The Middle East in Early Islamic History Chapter 2: Islamic Civilization: The Classical Era Chapter 3: Ottoman and Safavid Empires Chapter 4: The Middle East and Early Modern Europe Chapter 5: From "New Order" to "Re-Ordering": The Tanzimat Chapter 6: Indirect European Influence in the Middle East Chapter 7: Responses to Increased European Presence Chapter 8: Experiments in Popular Sovereignty Chapter 9: World War I: The Last Ottoman War Chapter 10: Redefining the Middle East Chapter 11: Birth of New Nations Chapter 12: Making New Nations from Imperial Regions Chapter 13: World War II and Its Aftermath Chapter 14: War over Israel/Palestine Chapter 15: Impact of the 1948 War Chapter 16: Six-Day War Chapter 17: Turkey and Iran after World War II Chapter 18: From Six-Day War to October War Chapter 19: Arab Middle East in the 1970s Chapter 20: Revolution in Iran, Saddam, and the Iran-Iraq War Chapter 21: Middle East at the End of the Cold War, 1979–1993 Chapter 22: The Middle East after the Cold War Chapter 23: The Middle East in World History after September 11 Glossary Index

O autorze

Ernest Tucker is professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, where he teaches courses on Middle Eastern and Central Asian history. He has published a collection of texts related to nineteenth-century Muslim leader Imam Shamil as well as a study of the eighteenth-century Iranian monarch Nadir Shah. Tucker has also contributed to numerous encyclopedias and dictionaries, as well as publications such as the Middle East Journal and Iranian Studies.