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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| 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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