| Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East Contributor(s): Beinin, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521621216 ISBN-13: 9780521621212 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 305.562 |
| LCCN: 00068950 |
| Lexile Measure: 1420 |
| Series: Contemporary Middle East |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beinin, Joel: - Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, California. His publications include The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (1998) and Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948 65 (1990). |