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War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East

Author: Steven Heydemann; Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume is a collection of essays which explores the role of war preparation and warmaking on the formation and transformation of states and societies in the the Middle East. The text challenges  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Steven Heydemann; Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East.
ISBN: 0520224213 9780520224216 0520224221 9780520224223
OCLC Number: 43662081
Notes: "This volume is the result of a project on war and social change in the Middle East, directed and sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East"--T.p. verso.
Description: 372 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East / Steven Heydeman --
Guns, gold and grain: war and food supply in the making of Transjordan / Tariq Tell --
The climax and crisis of the colonial welfare state in Syria and Lebanon during World War II / Elizabeth Thompson --
War, Keynesianism, and colonialism: explaining state-market relation in the postwar Middle East / Robert Vitalsim and Steven Heydemann --
Si vis stabilitatem, para bellum: state building, national security, and war preparation in Syria / Volker Perthes --
Changing boundaries and social crisis: Israel and the 1967 war / Joel S. Migdal --
War as leveler, war as midwife :Palestinian political institution, nationalism, and society since 1948 --
Yezid Sayigh --
War in the social memory of Egyptian peasants / Reem Saad --
War as a vehicle for the rise and demise of state-controlled society: the case of Ba'thist Iraq / Isam Al-Khafaji --
The political economy of civil war in Lebanon / Elizabeth Picard --
The cumulative impact of Middle Eastern Wars / Roger Owen.
Responsibility: edited by Steven Heydemann.
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