Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East

Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, California. His publications include The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (1998) and Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948–65 (1990).

• Introduction; 1. The world capitalist market, provincial regimes and local producers, 1750–1839; 2. Ottoman reform and European Imperialism, 1839–1907; 3. The rise of mass politics, 1908–39; 4. Fikri al-Khuli's journey to al-Mahalla al-Kubra; 5. Populist nationalism, state-led development and authoritarian regimes, 1939–73; 6. Post-populist reformation of the working-class and peasantry.

'… state of the art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East … the book is the first to present a synthetic critical assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of this region for the last twenty years. it offers new insight into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find it rich in narrative detail, and accessible and authoritative in presentation.' Discourse