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The Modern Middle East

The Modern Middle East Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 48 (2008) 240-272 251 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/157006008X340637 The Modern Middle East . By Ilan Pappé. London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 344, ISBN 978-0415214087, US$ 95.95. Ilan Pappé’s The Modern Middle East is an unusual textbook for the Modern Middle Eastern History classroom. It departs radically from a conventional approach because its primary focus is not on political, but on economic, social, cultural and gender history. As such it is a very timely addition, standing out among the books that ride the tide of an increasing interest in background information about a region in upheaval. In placing the living circumstances and experiences, pleasures and pains of the general population at the center of his narrative, the historian, who recently moved from Haifa to the University of Exeter, underlines his stature as a radical voice not only in Israeli academia, but generally among scholars of the Modern Middle East. To choose this approach is an experiment, however, and it is risky. Textbooks have to stand the test of lecture halls filled with undergraduate students who often lack the patience to get into the intricacies of alternative readings of history, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Die Welt des Islams Brill

The Modern Middle East

Wien, Peter
Die Welt des Islams , Volume 48 (2): 251 – Jan 1, 2008
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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0043-2539
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10.1163/157006008X340637
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Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 48 (2008) 240-272 251 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/157006008X340637 The Modern Middle East . By Ilan Pappé. London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 344, ISBN 978-0415214087, US$ 95.95. Ilan Pappé’s The Modern Middle East is an unusual textbook for the Modern Middle Eastern History classroom. It departs radically from a conventional approach because its primary focus is not on political, but on economic, social, cultural and gender history. As such it is a very timely addition, standing out among the books that ride the tide of an increasing interest in background information about a region in upheaval. In placing the living circumstances and experiences, pleasures and pains of the general population at the center of his narrative, the historian, who recently moved from Haifa to the University of Exeter, underlines his stature as a radical voice not only in Israeli academia, but generally among scholars of the Modern Middle East. To choose this approach is an experiment, however, and it is risky. Textbooks have to stand the test of lecture halls filled with undergraduate students who often lack the patience to get into the intricacies of alternative readings of history,

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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