Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958 write by Paul W. T. Kingston. This book was released on 2002-11-07. Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an historically informed critique of the theory and practice of development assistance, this book examines Britain's foreign aid programme in the Middle East in the 1940s and 1950s. After an assessment of the origins of what was dubbed the 'peasants, not pashas' policy - notably the link between development, sterling balances, and post-war imperial strategy - the author focuses on planning and policy debates between British development experts, their American rivals, and Middle Eastern technocrats. These debates, which centred on issues such as afforestation, irrigation, and rural credit, raise important questions about the nature and limits of the development process within the Middle East and the Third World which the author explores in his analysis. This 1996 book will be of interest to development practitioners and scholars in development studies, as well as to students of Middle East and imperial history.
Reproducing Sectarianism
Reproducing Sectarianism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reproducing Sectarianism write by Paul W. T. Kingston. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Reproducing Sectarianism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere has highlighted the growing importance of the politics of civil society in the contemporary Middle East. In Reproducing Sectarianism, Paul W. T. Kingston examines rights-oriented advocacy networks within Lebanon's postwar civil society, focusing on movements and political campaigns based on gender relations, the environment, and disability. Set within Lebanon's postwar sectarian democracy, whose factionalizing dynamics have long penetrated the country's civil society, Kingston's fascinating study provides an in-depth analysis of the successes and challenges that ensued in promoting rights-oriented social policies. Drawing on extensive field research, including interviews and a wealth of primary documents, Kingston has produced a groundbreaking work that will be of interest to Middle East experts and nonexperts alike.
The Middle East and the Cold War
The Middle East and the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middle East and the Cold War write by Matteo Gerlini. This book was released on 2012-01-24. The Middle East and the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There have been quite a lot of attempts to find out exactly what the impact of the Cold War on the Middle East was, and this from different disciplinary perspectives. This volumes tries to integrate the historical debate with new fresh insights thanks to the works of young scholars who are currently engaged in archival and field research. Algeria, Sudan, Jordan as well as Syria, Israel and Iran during the embattled 1950s and 1960s are the objects of this volume, which draws a much more complicated picture than one might expect. As a matter of fact, both the Cold War superpowers and their European allies proved constrained in their interventions to shape the political and economic dynamics of the region according to their own plans: on the contrary, Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy to achieve their goals, and fully exploited, in rhetorics and practice, the competition and rivalry which divided the industrial countries during the Cold War. The process of decolonization and the related construction of new patterns of national sovereignty and development were major issues at stake for both the Cold War camps and their postcolonial partners in the Middle East. Though peculiar, the region proved to be no exception to global trends. The so called “liberal” Fifties as well as the “radical” Sixties of the XXth century were times of great conflict and change, setting much of the institutions and patterns of development which lasted for three decades, at least, but also providing fresh opportunities for new social and politics groups to emerge and consolidate in power. In light of the current events in North Africa and the Middle East at large, this volume is a highly valuable contribution to the deeper and wider understanding of the region in itself as well as the patterns of its integration within the wider, global world
The British left and Zionism
The British left and Zionism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British left and Zionism write by Paul Kelemen. This book was released on 2018-02-28. The British left and Zionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The changes and divisions on the left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. While the Labour Party’s supported establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, as a modernising force, the communist movement opposed it, on the grounds that it facilitated imperial influence in the Middle East. In 1947, however, the British Communist Party rallied to the Zionist cause, leaving the Palestinian cause with no effective protagonists in Britain. The left’s sympathy, at the time, was overwhelmingly with the Israeli state, considering its establishment a recompense to the Jewish people for the Holocaust. It was only after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, that the new left in Britain began to articulate a critical attitude to Israel and support for Palestinian nationalism. It is a perspective which has gradually gained ground in the political mainstream.
War and Memory in Lebanon
War and Memory in Lebanon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and Memory in Lebanon write by Sune Haugbolle. This book was released on 2010-03-15. War and Memory in Lebanon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sune Haugbolle's often poignant book chronicles the battle over ideas that emerged from the wreckage of the Lebanese civil war.
