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a| Watenpaugh, Keith David, d| 1966- 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005054475

a| Being modern in the Middle East : b| revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class / c| Keith David Watenpaugh.

a| Princeton, N.J. : b| Princeton University Press, c| [2006]

c| ©2006

a| xi, 325 pages : b| illustrations, maps ; c| 25 cm

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a| Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-316) and index.

a| 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.

a| "This is an original piece of scholarship that addresses interesting questions about an understudied and important aspect of Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean history. The product of a lively mind fed by broad reading, the book treats the reader to moments of wonderful insight based on new research."--Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia

a| "A remarkable book. It represents a major departure in the current historiography of the Middle East and is a significant contribution to the field."--Peter Sluglett, University of Utah

a| Arab nationalism. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001007250

a| Arab nationalism. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/812216

a| Middle class z| Arab countries.

a| Revolutions. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113507

a| Revolutions. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1096737

a| Social conflict z| Arab countries.

a| Civil society z| Arab countries. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120288

a| Civil society. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/862876

a| Social conflict. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122378

a| Middle class. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1020437

a| Arab countries. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1240128

3| Table of contents u| http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005021431.html

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