Social & Pol Hist Middle East

Catalog description

Introduces students to new approaches to the study of the Middle East, with focus on social and political histories of multiethnic societies in Ottoman Istanbul, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; Qajar Iran; and post-WWI mandates. Covers the impact of modernity, specifically, how people experienced sectarianism, nationalism, and colonialism; integration into the world economy; and transitions from empire to nation-state.