War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Steven Heydemann

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.04
• Soggetto topico: War and society - Middle East; War - Economic aspects - Middle East
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East History 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: academic; civil war; class structure; colonial; colonialism; cultural history; economics; government; middle east; middle eastern; national security; political economy; political; politics; postwar; scholarly; social change; social class; social history; social studies; war; wartime; welfare state; world history; world war 1.; world war 2.; world war; wwi; wwii
• Altri autori: HeydemannSteven
• Note generali: "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.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (335-356) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East -- 2. Guns, Gold, and Grain: War and Food Supply in the Making of Transjordan -- 3. The Climax and Crisis of the Colonial Welfare State in Syria and Lebanon during World War II -- 4. War, Keynesianism, and Colonialism: Explaining State-Market Relations in the Postwar Middle East Robert Vitalis and Steven Heydemann -- 5. Si Vis Stabilitatem, Para Bellum: State Building, National Security, and War Preparation in Syria -- 6. Changing Boundaries and Social Crisis Israel and the 1967 War -- 7. War as Leveler, War as Midwife Palestinian Political Institutions, Nationalism, and Society since 1948 -- 8. War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants -- 9. War as a Vehicle for the Rise and Demise of a State-Controlled Society: The Case of Ba'thist Iraq -- 10. The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon -- 11. The Cumulative Impact of Middle Eastern Wars -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- List of Contributors -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the role of war preparation and war-making on the formation and transformation of states and societies in the contemporary Middle East. Their findings pose significant challenges to widely accepted assumptions and present new theoretical starting points for the study of war and the state in the contemporary developing world. Heydemann's collaborators include political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Their essays are both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, covering topics such as the effects of World War II on state-market relations in Syria and Egypt, the role of war in the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political economy of Lebanese militias, and the effects of the 1967 war on state and social institutions in Israel. The volume originated as a research planning project of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council.
• Titolo autorizzato: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East
• ISBN: 0-520-92522-X; 9786612370700; 1-282-37070-7; 1-59734-987-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456004603321
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