Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa - SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East (Hardback)

Stephanie Cronin (editor)

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Hardback 322 Pages / Published: 11/09/2007

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Synopsis

The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers:

both major social classes and sectors

the working class

the peasantry

the urban poor

women

marginal groups such as gypsies and slaves

Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the great European social historians, and particularly inspired by Antonio Gramsci, the collection seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region, and to uncover 'the politics of the people'.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780415423557
Number of pages: 322
Weight: 780 g
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

'As an exploratory attempt to bring the methods and concerns of "History from below" to the region, the book is a clear success' - R.S.G. Fletcher, Asian Affairs, 2008

' In terms of historical span, extending from the 16th century to the present, and its geographical diversity, the collection is a unique contribution to the effort of recovering the subaltern margins of society' - Nazan Maksudyan, International Journal of Middle East Studies. 42 (2010)