The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A history in documents

Author
Clancy-Smith, Julia and Charles D. Smith
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2014
Language
English
Call Number
DS37.7 .C53 2014
ISBN
9780195338270
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
326
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Africa, North -- History -- Sources
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Middle East -- History -- Sources
Abstract

Utilizing a mix of documents--including photographs, posters, diaries, diplomatic records, archival sources, and literary works--The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents is structured around an underlying theme of unity in diversity. This theme helps to offset students' stereotypical image of the Middle East and North Africa as an undifferentiated, monolithic, and unchanging part of the world inhabited mainly by terrorists and religious fanatics. Compiled and edited by two prominent historians, Julia Clancy-Smith and Charles Smith, the book's approach offers a compromise between conventional political and diplomatic histories and those focusing on social and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how the Middle East and North Africa have participated in and shaped the grand currents of global history during the past two centuries. Headnotes, extended captions, sidebars, introductory essays, and a robust photo program (including a documentary picture essay devoted to women and gender) provide an essential context framing the documents.