Being modern in the Middle East revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class /

Main Author: Watenpaugh, Keith David, 1966-
Other Authors: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 325 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series: Ebook Central (EBC)
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Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Introduction: Modernity, Class, and the Architectures of Community -- 2. An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution -- Section I. Being Modern in a Time of Revolution: The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of Middle-Class Politics (1908-1918) -- Introduction -- 3. Ottoman Precedents (I): Journalism, Voluntary Association, and the "True Civilization" of the Middle Class -- 4. Ottoman Precedents (II): The Technologies of the Public Sphere and the Multiple Deaths of the Ottoman Citizen -- Section II. Being Modern in a Moment of Anxiety: The Middle Class Makes Sense of A "Postwar" World (1918-1924)--Historicism, Nationalism, and Violence -- Introduction -- 5. Rescuing the Arab from History: Halab, Orientalist Imaginings, Wilsonianism, and Early Arabism -- 6. The Persistence of Empire at the Moment of Its Collapse: Ottoman-Islamic Identity and "New Men" Rebels -- 7. Remembering the Great War: Allegory, Civil Virtue, and Conservative Reaction -- Section III. Being Modern in an Era of Colonialism: Middle-Class Modernity and the Culture of the French Mandate for Syria (1924-1946) -- Introduction -- 8. Deferring to the A'yan: The Middle-Class and the Politics of Notables -- 9. Middle-Class Fascism and the Transformation of Civil Violence: Steel Shirts, White Badges, and the Last Qabaday -- 10. Not Quite Syrians: Aleppo's Communities of Collaboration -- 11. Coda: The Incomplete Project of Middle-Class Modernity and the Paradox of Metropolitan Desire -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 325 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Format: Users at some libraries may be required to establish an individual no-charge EBC account, and log in to access the full text.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781400866663
1400866669