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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Modern Middle East"”.
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Building Urban Palestine: Jaffa and Nablus 1870-1930
… It treats the two cities not as more or less modern than one another but as constitutive of a multifaceted process of modernisation that encompassed relations of interdependence and rivalry between cities and within them. To do this, the dissertation draws on spatial and architectural analysis …
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Families-in-Arms: Kinship Networks of Arab Ottoman Army Officers from the Late Ottoman Empire to Postwar Syria and Iraq (1885-1932)
… for four centuries and is now known as the Middle East, and more specifically, Syria and Iraq. This study begins in the 1880s, with the birth of many of the individuals who served as officers and bureaucrats in the Ottoman military and civil service prior to and during the First World War. …
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Mental Illness and the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948
This thesis examines the ways in which the British mandate conceptualised, encountered, and sought to manage mental illness in Palestine between 1920 and 1948. The subject of mental illness has hitherto received partial consideration by historians interested in the Yishuv, who treat this period as …