| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) |
| Series |
The California world history library ; 13 |
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California world history library ; 13.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; introduction; 1. The late nineteenth-centuryWorld and the Emergence of a Global Radical Culture; 2. The Nahba, the Press, and the Construction and dissemination of a RadicalWorldview; 3. Theater and Radical Politics in beirut, Cairo, and alexandria 1860-1914; 4. The Construction of Two Radical networks in beirut and alexandria; 5. Workers, labor Unrest, and the formulation and dissemination of Radical leftist ideas; Conclusion: deprovincializing the Eastern Mediterranean; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among intellectuals, workers, dramatists, Egyptians, Ottoman Syrians, ethnic Italians, Greeks, and many others in these cities. In situating the Middle East within the context of world history, Khuri-Makdisi challenges nationalist and elite narratives of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history as well a |
| Analysis |
1860 |
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1914 |
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alexandria |
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anarchists |
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beirut |
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cairo |
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discussion books |
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dramatists |
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eastern mediterranean |
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global history |
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global radicalism |
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greeks |
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historical perspective |
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historical |
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history buffs |
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intellectualism |
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intellectuals |
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italians |
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middle east |
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nationalism |
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ottoman syrians |
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political issues |
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political philosophy |
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political |
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radical movements |
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radical thought |
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social history |
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socialist ideals |
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socialist workers |
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turn of the century |
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world history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Radicalism -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
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Radicalism -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History
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Radicalism -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Radicalism
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Cairo (Egypt) -- History
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Alexandria (Egypt) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006219
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Beirut (Lebanon) -- History
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Egypt -- Alexandria
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Egypt -- Cairo
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Lebanon -- Beirut
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520945463 |
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0520945468 |
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9786613291769 |
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6613291765 |
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