What Went Wrong? : Approaches to the Modern History of the Middle East 9781602567542, 1602567549, 0195144201

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What Went Wrong? : Approaches to the Modern History of the Middle East
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Table of contents :
Content: Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Lessons of the Battlefield
Chapter 2 The Quest for Wealth and Power
Chapter 3 Social and Cultural Barriers
Chapter 4 Modernization and Social Equality
Chapter 5 Secularism and the Civil Society
Chapter 6 Time, Space, and Modernity
Chapter 7 Aspects of Cultural Change
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Index.

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