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 Middle East and North Africa. Inspired by the approach of the Indian Subaltern Studies school, the book is the first to offer a synthesized critical assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of this region for the last twenty years. It offers insights into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find it rich in narrative detail, and accessible and authoritative in presentation.

Joel Beinin's book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.

About the Author
Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, California. His publications include The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (1998) and Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-65 (1990).

Reviews
'... state of the art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East ... the book is the first to present a synthetic critical assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of this region for the last twenty years. it offers new insight into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find it rich in narrative detail, and accessible and authoritative in presentation.' Discourse



Book Information
ISBN 9780521629034
Author Joel Beinin
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 374g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 153mm * 17mm