The Making of the Modern Middle East, 1750 CE to 1923 CE

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This course provides students with an overview of the broad social, economic, and political trends that reshaped the Middle East and North Africa between the late eighteenth century and the end of the First World War. This includes the growth of European influence over the region, manifest in both direct colonial rule as in Algeria and Egypt, and more indirect forms of domination, as in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran. It also includes an examination of the various responses this changing balance of power provoked in the societies of the Middle East and North Africa. It concludes by contextualizing the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires and the emergence of the region’s modern system of nation-states in the aftermath of the First World War. Recommended Prerequisite: HST 104 .