TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watenpaugh,Keith David
TI  - Being modern in the Middle East: revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class 
SN  - 9781400866663
AV  - DS63 .B456 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Arab nationalism
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Revolutions
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : modernity, class, and the architectures of community --; An eastern Mediterranean city on the eve of revolution --; Being modern in a time of revolution : the revolution of 1908 and the beginnings of middle-class politics (1908-1918) --; Ottoman precedents (I) : journalism, voluntary association, and the "true civilization" of the middle class --; Ottoman precedents (II) : the technologies of the public sphere and the multiple deaths of the Ottoman citizen --; Being modern in a moment of anxiety : the middle class makes sense of a "postwar" world (1918-1924) --; historicism, nationalism, and violence --; Rescuing the Arab from history : halab, Orientalist imaginings, Wilsonianism, and early Arabism --; The persistence of empire at the moment of its collapse : Ottoman-Islamic identity and "new men" rebels --; Remembering the great war : allegory, civic virtue, and conservative reaction --; Being modern in an era of colonialism : middle-class modernity and the culture of the French mandate for Syria (1925-1946) --; Deferring to the A.Ayan : the middle class and the politics of notables --; Middle-class fascism and the transformation of civil violence : steel shirts, white badges, and the last Qabaday --; Not quite Syrians : Aleppo's communities of collaboration --; Coda : the incomplete project of middle-class modernity and the paradox of metropolitan desire; 2; b
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