A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers Rebels and Rogues

A History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey Iran and the Arab countries of the Middle East as well as areas often left out of Middle East historysuch as the Balkans and the changing roles that Western forces have played in the region for centuriesto discuss the larger contexts and influences on the regions cultural and political development. Enriched by the perspectives of workers and professionals; urban merchants and provincial notables; slaves students women and peasants as well as political leaders the book maps the complex social interrelationships and provides a pivotal understanding of the shifting shapes of governance and trajectories of social change in the Middle East. Extensively illustrated with drawings photographs and maps this text skillfully integrates a diverse range of actors and influences to construct a narrative that is at once sophisticated and lucid. A History of the Modern Middle East highlights the regions complexity and variation countering easy assumptions about the Middle East those who governed and those they governedthe rulers rebels and rogues who shaped a region.