Beginnings Of Modernization In The Middle East

An historically informed 1996 critique of development assistance, examining Britain's foreign aid programme in the Middle East in the 1940s and 1950s.

"Written under the auspices of the Center of International Studies and the Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University."

Machine generated contents note: 1 Doing History: Modem Middle Eastern Studies Today, -- Israel Gershoni and Ursula Wokick -- Part 1 New Dimensions of Modernizing Processes -- 2 The Great Ottoman Debasement, 1808-1844: A Political Economy Framework, fevket Pamuk -- 3 A Prelude to Ottoman Reform: Ibn 'Abidin on Custom and Legal Change, Wael B. Hallaq -- 4 The Damascus Affair and the Beginnings of France's Empire in the Middle East, Mary C. Wilson -- 5 The Gender of Modernity: Reflections from Iranian Historiography, Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Part 2 Globalization Then and Now -- 6 From Liberalism to Liberal Imperialism: Lord Cromer and the First Wave of Globalization in Egypt, Roger Owen -- 7 Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Classes in the Middle East, Joel Beinin -- Part 3 Recovering Lost Voices in the Age of Colonialism -- 8 Exploring the Field: Lost Voices and Emerging Practices in Egypt, 1882-1914, Zachary Lockman -- 9 Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim's Dialogues -- About the Family, Eve M. Troutt Powell -- 10 Shaikh al-Ra'is and Sultan Abdiilhamid II: The Iranian Dimension of Pan-Islam, Juan R. I. Cole -- Part 4 Constructing Identities, Defining Nations -- 11 Recruitment for the "Victorious Soldiers of Muhammad" in the Arab Provinces, 1826-1828, Hakan Erdem -- 12 The Politics of History and Memory: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Lausanne Peace Conference, 1922-1923, -- Fatma Miige Godek -- 13 Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine: The Half-Full Glass? -- Rashid Khalidi -- 14 Manly Men on a National Stage (and the Women Who Make Them Stars), Walter Armbrust.

This text offers an examination of the economic history of the principal Arab countries, Turkey and Israel since 1918. Using the state as its major economic analysis, it charts the growth of national income and issues of welfare and distribution over two periods, 1918-1945 and 1945-1990. Important trends are explored, including the patterns of colonial economic management, import substitution, the impact of the 1970s oil boom, and the current process of liberalization and structural adjustment

This book reinterprets US-Arab relations by examining conflicts between American Cold War policies and the modernizing visions of Arab nationalists, Islamists, and communists.