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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History


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The region's history from the earliest times to the present is catered for by this series made up of the very latest research. Books include political, social, cultural, religious and economic history.

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Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History Essays in Honor of Roger Owen

Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History: Essays in Honor of Roger Owen

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Don Babai
July 26, 2024

This volume explores major theoretical and empirical themes in the study of the economic history of the Middle East. Despite the relative neglect of economic history in Middle Eastern studies, this book makes a case for its importance as a discipline of study. On the one hand, it shows promise in ...

Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Dafna Hirsch
April 16, 2024

This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology. Informed by the anthropological method of setting large questions to intimate settings, the book examines processes of ...

The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology Between Hegemony and Marginalization

The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology: Between Hegemony and Marginalization

1st Edition

By Hayah Katz
July 31, 2023

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts into account. Adopting a Foucauldian framework of power and knowledge, the author begins by focusing on ...

America's Arab Nationalists From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler

America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler

1st Edition

By Aaron Berman
November 04, 2022

America’s Arab Nationalists focuses in on the relationship between Arab nationalists and Americans in the struggle for independence in an era when idealistic Americans could see the Arab nationalist struggle as an expression of their own values. In the first three decades of the twentieth century (...

The British Mandate in Palestine A Centenary Volume, 1920–2020

The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920–2020

1st Edition

Edited By Michael J Cohen
February 12, 2020

The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the conflicting issues --social, political and ...

Hebrew Popular Journalism Birth and Development in Ottoman Palestine

Hebrew Popular Journalism: Birth and Development in Ottoman Palestine

1st Edition

By Ouzi Elyada
June 04, 2019

The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and the eruption of World War I in 1914. The inquiry yields a profile of the printers, editors, and journalists, and examines the editors’ working patterns...

Protestant Missionaries in the Levant Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860

Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860

1st Edition

By Samir Khalaf
May 24, 2017

Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys’ attempts to convert the ‘native,’ population. Early failure in conversion led to later ...

War and State Formation in Syria Cemal Pasha's Governorate During World War I, 1914-1917

War and State Formation in Syria: Cemal Pasha's Governorate During World War I, 1914-1917

1st Edition

By M. Talha Çiçek
December 08, 2016

During the First World War, Cemal Pasha attempted to establish direct control over Syrian and thereby reaffirm Ottoman authority there through various policies of control, including the abolishment of local intermediaries. Elaborating on these Ottoman policies of control, this book assesses Cemal ...

Histories of the Jews of Egypt An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s

Histories of the Jews of Egypt: An Imagined Bourgeoisie, 1880s-1950s

1st Edition

By Dario Miccoli
March 18, 2015

Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt – mainly in the two cities of Alexandria and Cairo, heavily influencing the social and cultural history of the country. Histories of the Jews of Egypt argues that this Jewish diaspora should be viewed as "...

The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940-1948

The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East: Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940-1948

1st Edition

By Meir Zamir
November 27, 2014

The role of intelligence in colonialism and decolonization is a rapidly expanding field of study. The premise of The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East is that intelligence statecraft is the "missing dimension" in the established historiography of the Middle East during and after World War ...

The Druze Community and the Lebanese State Between Confrontation and Reconciliation

The Druze Community and the Lebanese State: Between Confrontation and Reconciliation

1st Edition

By Yusri Hazran
July 01, 2014

One of the fundamental questions of Middle Eastern, and Lebanese studies in particular, is the history of the relationship between the Druze community and the state in modern Lebanon. Arguing that the Druze community has been politically alienated from the Lebanese state, this book explores the ...

The Origins of the Libyan Nation Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State

The Origins of the Libyan Nation: Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State

1st Edition

By Anna Baldinetti
February 27, 2013

Libya is a typical example of a colonial or external creation. This book addresses the emergence and construction of nation and nationalism, particularly among Libyan exiles in the Mediterranean region. It charts the rise of nationalism from the colonial era and shows how it developed through an ...

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