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Title

Tormented births : passages to modernity in Europe and the Middle East / Isam Al-Khafaji.

Author

Khafājī, ʻIṣām.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris : In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Description

xi, 389 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Al-Khafaji offers an exploration of political, economic and social development in the Middle East. He discourages an approach that over-emphasises the importance of the colonial experience and cultural differences with Europe.

Series Statement

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 39

Uniform Title

Library of modern Middle East studies 39.

Subject

• Newly independent states
• Economic development
• Moderniteit
• Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling
• Nouveaux États indépendants
• Développement économique
• Europe > History
• Middle East > History
• Europe > Histoire
• Moyen-Orient > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-382).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : posing the problematic -- Ch. 1. The logic of premodern structures -- Ch. 2. Merchants, landowners and the origins of underdevelopment -- Ch. 3. The changing boundaries of urban landscapes -- Ch. 4. Social formations in historical perspective -- Ch. 5. Community, authority and identity : some methodological considerations -- Ch. 6. Roots of change : a political economy of the Mashreq revolutions -- Ch. 7. Atomization, centralization and nationalism -- Ch. 8. The political economy of state capitalism -- Ch. 9. Classes, states and modernity -- App. Note on the method of sampling -- Ch. 10. In lieu of conclusion : from modernization to rentierism -- Bibliography : English and French -- Dutch summary.

ISBN

• 1860649769
• 9781860649769

OCLC

53962253

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library