The Modern Middle East: A Reader

This valuable collection of essays brings leading Middle Eastern scholars together in one volume and provides an unparalleled view of the modern Middle East. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only available text of its kind. It will also appeal to anyone with a general interest in the Middle East.

The book is divided into four sections: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918; Transformations in Society and Economy, 1789-1918; The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics up to the 1950s; and The Middle East since the Second World War.

Albert Hourani (1915-1993) was Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and the author of A History of the Arab Peoples (1991). Philip S. Khoury is Professor of Middle East History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-editor of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (California, 1991). Mary C. Wilson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author of King Abdullah, Britain, and the Making of Jordan (1988).