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1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-253) and index. |
| Summary |
"This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East - based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages - shows the transition from an internal history characterised by local realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history largely imagined and imposed by external actors. The author demonstrates how the once-heterogeneous identities of Middle Eastern peoples were sealed into a standardised and uniform version that persists to this day. He also sheds light on the efforts that peoples in the region - in the context of a new process of homogenisation of diversities - are exerting in order to get back into history, regaining possession of their multifaceted pasts."-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Intro -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Past's Present -- 1 Beyond 'Tribes' and 'Sects': on Concepts and Terms -- 2 The First Moment -- 1830s: The Germs of Competing Ethno-religious Visions -- 3 The Second Moment -- The Tanzımat's Long Waves: Politicising Ethno-religious Differences -- 4 The Third Moment -- From Ethnocentric Drives to a New Millet System -- 5 Balfour's 'Pattern' -- 6 The Racialisation of Middle Eastern People -- 7 Beyond 'Artificiality': Borders, States, Nations -- Conclusion: The Present's Past -- Bibliography |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Middle East.
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Ethnology. |
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Middle East. |
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Nationalism -- Middle East.
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Nationalism. |
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Middle East -- History.
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History. |
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Middle East -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kamel, Lorenzo, 1980- Middle East from empire to sealed identities. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 1474448941 (OCoLC)1077577718 |
| ISBN |
9781474448963 (electronic book) |
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1474448968 (electronic book) |
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1474448941 |
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9781474448949 |
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9781474448970 |
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1474448968 |
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1474448976 |
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