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Introduction: The political transformation of the Middle East 1914-1923 -- The rise of Egyptian nationalism and the perception of foreigners in Egypt 1914-1923 -- The antecedents and implications of the so-called Anglo-Sanussi War 1915-1917 -- British intelligence and Arab nationalism : the origins of the modern Middle East -- The first world war and its legacy for women in Iraq -- From anti-imperial dissent to national consent : the first world war and the formation of a trans-sectarian national consciousness in Lebanon -- Historicising hunger : the famine in wartime Lebanon and Syria -- The patriarch, the amir and the patriots : civilisation and self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference -- A thoroughly modern caliphate : could legitimate governance for the Middle East in the aftermath of the first world war have been found by looking within? -- From the archduke to the caliph : the Islamist evolution that led to 'the Islamic State" -- Some reflection on whether the mandates were a slow burning fuse for toxic sectarianism in Arab countries -- Oil, state and society in Iran in the aftermath of the first world war -- The new Arab intellectuals of the post-first world war period : the case of Taha Husayn -- A tale of two nationalists : parallelisms in the writings of Ziya Gokalp and Michel Aflaq -- Women, war and the foundations of the Turkish Republic : the vision of new womanhood in Halide Edib Adivar's The shirt of flame (1922) -- The limits of soft power : why Kurdish nationalism failed in the French mandate of Syria -- The other jihads : Enver Pasha, Bolsheviks, and politics of anticolonial Muslim nationalism during the Baku Congress 1920 -- A point of order : a battle for autonomy in the first legislative council of Transjordan -- Drawing the line : Calouste Gulbenkian and the Red Line Agreement of 1928. |
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1909942766 (electronic bk.) |
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9781909942769 (electronic bk.) |
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1909942758 |
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9781909942752 |
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