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Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
Contributor(s): Cronin, Stephanie (Editor)
ISBN: 0415665825     ISBN-13: 9780415665827
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $56.04  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - North
- History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy
Dewey: 956
Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.04 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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Publisher Description:

The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers:

    • both major social classes and sectors

    • the working class

    • the peasantry

    • the urban poor

    • women

    • marginal groups such as gypsies and slaves

Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the great European social historians, and particularly inspired by Antonio Gramsci, the collection seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region, and to uncover 'the politics of the people'.