Stephanie Cronin (ed.)

Subalterns and Social Protest

History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
Herausgeber: Cronin, Stephanie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded. This book offers a challenge to the usual elite narratives. Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the social historians, it seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region.

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Unique in its historical depth and ranging from the medieval period to the present, covering Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa, this is the first book to focus on the oppressed and excluded. Challenging the usual elite narratives, the articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780415423557
• ISBN-10: 0415423554
• Artikelnr.: 26368298

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Cronin is Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow at the University of Northampton. Her most recent book is Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941, also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stephanie Cronin Part 1: The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest
1. Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman
Damascus James Grehan 2. Women and Popular Protest: Women's Demonstrations
in Nineteenth Century Iran Vanessa Martin Part 2: Poor People's Politics
3. Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Century Egypt John Chalcraft 4. Workless Revolutionaries: The
Movement of the Unemployed in Post-Revolutionary Iran Asef Bayat 5.
Transforming the City from Below: Shanty-Town Dwellers and the Fight for
Electricity in Casablanca Lamia Zaki Part 3: Peasants and Nomads 6.
Resisting the New State: The Rural Poor, Land and Modernity in Iran,
1921-1941 Stephanie Cronin Part 4: Marginals and Outcasts 7. Exploring the
Margins of Ottoman Society: "Disorderly" Gypsies" Failk Celik 8.
Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: Marriage, Property and Social
Advancement in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Fatiha Loualich
Part 5: European Subalterns 9. "Making It" in Pre-Colonial Tunis:
Migration, Work and Poverty in a Mediterranean Port-City, c. 1815-1870
Julia Clancy-Smith 10. Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: Subalterns or
Labour Aristocracy? Antony Gorman Part 6: Subalterns and National Movements
11. From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and the Formation of
Modern Greece Gerassimos Karabelias 12. Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a
Voice: The Al-Aqsa Intifada as a Strategy of the Marginalized Roger Heacock