Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle ClassPrinceton University Press, 2006 - 325 страница In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. The book explores the rise of a middle class of liberal professionals, white-collar employees, journalists, and businessmen during the first decades of the twentieth century in the Arab Middle East and the ways its members created civil society, and new forms of politics, bodies of thought, and styles of engagement with colonialism. Discussions of the middle class have been largely absent from historical writings about the Middle East. Watenpaugh fills this lacuna by drawing on Arab, Ottoman, British, American and French sources and an eclectic body of theoretical literature and shows that within the crucible of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, World War I, and the advent of late European colonialism, a discrete middle class took shape. It was defined not just by the wealth, professions, possessions, or the levels of education of its members, but also by the way they asserted their modernity. Using the ethnically and religiously diverse middle class of the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, Syria, as a point of departure, Watenpaugh explores the larger political and social implications of what being modern meant in the non-West in the first half of the twentieth century. Well researched and provocative, Being Modern in the Middle East makes a critical contribution not just to Middle East history, but also to the global study of class, mass violence, ideas, and revolution. |
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Introduction Modernity Class and the Architectures of Community | 1 |
An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution | 31 |
Being Modern in a Time of Revolution The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of MiddleClass Politics 19081918 | 55 |
Ottoman Precedents I Journalism Voluntary Association and the True Civilization of the Middle Class | 68 |
Ottoman Precedents II The Technologies of the Public Sphere and the Multiple Deaths of the Ottoman Citizen | 95 |
Being Modern in a Moment of Anxiety The Middle Class Makes Sense of a Postwar World 19181924Historicism Nationalism and Violence | 121 |
Rescuing the Arab from History Halab Orientalist Imaginings Wilsonianism and Early Arabism | 134 |
The Persistence of Empire at the Moment of Its Collapse OttomanIslamic Identity and New Men Rebels | 160 |
Being Modern in an Era of Colonialism MiddleClass Modernity and the Culture of the French Mandate for Syria 19251946 | 211 |
Deferring to the Ayan THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE POLITICS OF NOTABLES | 222 |
MiddleClass Fascism and the Transformation of Civil Violence Steel Shirts White Badges and the Last Qabaday | 255 |
Not Quite Syrians Aleppos Communities of Collaboration | 279 |
Coda The Incomplete Project of MiddleClass Modernity and the Paradox of Metropolitan Desire | 299 |
Select Bibliography | 309 |
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Remembering the Great War Allegory Civic Virtue and Conservative Reaction | 185 |