Being modern in the Middle East : revolution, nationalism, colonialism, and the Arab middle class / Keith David Watenpaugh.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2012.

xvii, 325 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 25 cm

1st ed.

Published by Princeton University Press.

This book has been composed in Sabon.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

Being Modern in a Time of Revolution: The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of Middle-Class Politics (1908–1918) -- Being Modern in a Moment of Anxiety: The Middle Class Makes Sense of a “Postwar” World (1918–1924)—Historicism, Nationalism, and Violence -- Being Modern in an Era of Colonialism: Middle-Class Modernity and the Culture of the French Mandate for Syria (1925–1946).

Introduction: Modernity, Class, and the Architectures of Community -- An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution -- Ottoman Precedents (I): Journalism, Voluntary Association, and the “True Civilization” of the Middle Class -- Ottoman Precedents (II): The Technologies of the Public Sphere and the Multiple Deaths of the Ottoman Citizen -- Rescuing the Arab from History: Halab, Orientalist Imaginings, Wilsonianism, and Early Arabism -- The Persistence of Empire at the Moment of Its Collapse: Ottoman-Islamic Identity and “New Men” Rebels -- Remembering the Great War: Allegory, Civic Virtue, and Conservative Reaction -- Deferring to the A‘yan: The Middle Class and the Politic of Notables -- Middle-Class Fascism and the Transformation of Civil Violence: Steel Shirts, White Badges, and the Last Qabaday -- Not Quite Syrians: Aleppo's Communities of Collaboration -- Coda: The Incomplete Project of Middle-Class Modernity and the Paradox of Metropolitan Desire.

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])