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Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East

By Joel Beinin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521621216, 9780521621212
Open Library ID
OL7748999M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1555847 bytes)
Series
The Contemporary Middle East
Pages
225\225
Time added
2011-01-24 12:34:20

Description

The working people, who constitute the majority in any society, can be and deserve to be subjects of history. Joel Beinin's state-of-the-art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly how their lives, experiences, and culture can inform our historical understanding. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the book charts the history of the peasants and the modern working classes across the lands of the Ottoman Empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states. Inspired by the approach of the Indian subaltern Studies school, the book presents a synthetic assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of the region for over thirty years. Students will find it rich in detail, and accessible in presentation.

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