Urban Violence in the Middle East
Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State
Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires - Ottoman and Qajar, but also European - to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Fuccaro, Nelida (Hrsg.) / Ghrawi, Claudia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78920-829-0
- EAN: 9781789208290
- Produktnummer: 33428081
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 334 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 485 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 485
Über den Autor
Ulrike Freitag is a historian of the Modern Middle East with a special interest in urban history and the Arabian Peninsula in its global context. She directs Zentrum Moderner Orient and teaches at the Freie Universität. She is author of A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (CUP, 2020) and co-editor (with André Chappatte and Nora Lafi) of Understanding the City through its Margins (Routledge 2018).
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