The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context : [Tenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida Biennial Conference]

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The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context : [Tenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida Biennial Conference]

edited by Georges Sabagh

(Giorgio Levi Della Vida conferences, 10th conference)

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Held May 3-5, 1985 at the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies

Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

The effects of the social and economic disturbances which the Middle East has witnessed during the last few decades will undoubtedly have a lasting impact on its people and the Muslim world in general. The changes are investigated here by a body of social scientists specializing in the Middle East.

Table of Contents

  • The Middle East in the world context - a historical view, CHARLES ISSAWI
  • the movement of labour in and out of the Middle East over the last two centuries - peasants, patterns and policies, ROGER OWEN
  • Oil and economic development in the Middle East, HOMA KATOUZIAN
  • capital and lopsided development in Egypt under British occupation, BENT HANSEN
  • on loyalties and social change, SAMIR KHALAF
  • women and social change, AFAF LUTFI AL-SAYYID MARSOT
  • knowledge and education in the modern Middle East - a comparative view, CARTER VAUGHN FINDLEY.

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