The Modern Middle East And North Africa: A History In Documents (pages From History)
by Charles Smith /
2013 / English / PDF
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Winner of the Middle East Studies Association 2013
Undergraduate Education Award
Winner of the Middle East Studies Association 2013
Undergraduate Education Award
Utilizing a mix of documents--including photographs, posters,
diaries, diplomatic records, archival sources, and literary
works--
Utilizing a mix of documents--including photographs, posters,
diaries, diplomatic records, archival sources, and literary
works--The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in
Documents
The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in
Documents is structured around an underlying theme of unity in
diversity. This theme helps to offset students' stereotypical image
of the Middle East and North Africa as an undifferentiated,
monolithic, and unchanging part of the world inhabited mainly by
terrorists and religious fanatics. Compiled and edited by two
prominent historians, Julia Clancy-Smith and Charles Smith, the
book's approach offers a compromise between conventional political
and diplomatic histories and those focusing on social and cultural
history. The authors demonstrate how the Middle East and North
Africa have participated in and shaped the grand currents of global
history during the past two centuries. Headnotes, extended
captions, sidebars, introductory essays, and a robust photo program
(including a documentary picture essay devoted to women and gender)
provide an essential context framing the documents.
is structured around an underlying theme of unity in
diversity. This theme helps to offset students' stereotypical image
of the Middle East and North Africa as an undifferentiated,
monolithic, and unchanging part of the world inhabited mainly by
terrorists and religious fanatics. Compiled and edited by two
prominent historians, Julia Clancy-Smith and Charles Smith, the
book's approach offers a compromise between conventional political
and diplomatic histories and those focusing on social and cultural
history. The authors demonstrate how the Middle East and North
Africa have participated in and shaped the grand currents of global
history during the past two centuries. Headnotes, extended
captions, sidebars, introductory essays, and a robust photo program
(including a documentary picture essay devoted to women and gender)
provide an essential context framing the documents.