Being modern in the Middle East : revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class /
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Language: English
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2006.
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Call Number: DS63.6 .W38 2006
Table of Contents:
- 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 Aʻyan : 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.