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  • Armies and State-building in the Modern Middle East

    Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform

    by Stephanie Cronin ...
    The uprisings of 2011, which erupted so unexpectedly and spread across the Middle East, once again propelled the armies of the region to the centre of the political stage. Throughout the region, the experience of the first decade of the twenty-first century provides ample reason to re-examine Middle Eastern armies and the historical context which produced them. By adding an historical ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Social Histories of Iran

    Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East

    by Stephanie Cronin ...
    Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism. In this book, Stephanie Cronin problematizes both of these narratives. Its attention is firmly fixed on subaltern social groups: the 'dangerous classes' and their constructed contrast with the new and avowedly modern bourgeois elite created by the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Tribal Politics in Iran

    Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941

    by Stephanie Cronin ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, Tribal Politics in Iran provides an overall assessment on the impact of this crucial period on the character of tribe-state relations in Iran to the end of Pahlavi rule and in the Islamic Republic. It analyzes the political and socio-economic factors undermining tribal politics under the regime of Reza Shah, and examines the division which ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa

    The 'Dangerous Classes' Since 1800

    Edited by Stephanie Cronin ...
    The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Iranian-Russian Encounters

    Empires and Revolutions since 1800

    Edited by Stephanie Cronin ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to revolutionary upheavals and transformed from multinational dynastic empires typical of the nineteenth century to modernizing, authoritarian states typical of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran

    New Perspectives on the Iranian Left

    Edited by Dr Stephanie Cronin ...
    Series series Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series
    Even though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound. This book's authors undertake a fundamental re-examination and re-appraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran, interpreted in the broadest sense, throughout the period of its existence up to and including the present. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Making of Modern Iran

    State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941

    Edited by Dr Stephanie Cronin ...
    Series series Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series
    This collection of essays, by a distinguished group of specialists, offers a new and exciting interpretation of Riza Shah's Iran. A period of key importance, the years between 1921-1941 have, until now, remained relatively neglected. Recently, however, there has been a marked revival of interest in the history of these two decades and this collection brings together some of the best of this recent ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Subalterns and Social Protest

    History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Stephanie Cronin ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World

    Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress

    Edited by Stephanie Cronin ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about women’s veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies – secularism versus religious belief, individual freedom versus social or family coercion, identity versus integration – are not new but are strikingly prefigured by earlier ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    by Behlul (Behlul) Ozkan (Ozkan) ...
    How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for “birthplace” or “homeland”) from the Ottoman period—when it signified a certain territorial integrity and imperial ideology—through its acquisition of religious ... Read more

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  • Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History

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  • The Kurds

    A Contemporary Overview

    Edited by Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    The position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one. Their territory is divided between 5 sovereign states, none of which have a Kurdish majority. They speak widely divergent dialects, and are also divided by religious affiliations and social factors. It has taken the tragic and horrifying events in Iraq this year to bring the Kurds to the centre of the world stage, but their ... Read more

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