Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East

by Joel Beinin

Book Overview

Joel Beinin's survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly and compellingly how the lives, experiences and culture of working people can inform our historical understanding. Beginning in the middle of the eighteenth century, the book charts the history of peasants, urban artisans and modern working-classes across the lands of the Ottoman empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states, including the Balkans, Turkey, the Arab...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521629039
• ISBN13: 9780521629034
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"