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General Exam Field List

Professor Betty S. Anderson

History of the Modern Middle East, 1798-1979

Overview; U.S.-Arab World Relations in the 19th Century


1. Anderson, Betty S. State and Society in the Modern Middle East (2014 draft)
2. Makdisi, Ussama. Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001
(2010)
3. Makdisi, Ussama, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of
the Middle East (2007)

Ideologies of Modernity in the Late 19th Century


4. El Shakry, Marwa. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950 (2013)
5. Hourani, Albert. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (1962; 1983)
6. Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism,
1860-1914 (2010)
7. Watenpaugh, Keith David. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism,
Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class (2012)

The Age of Reform? Governance in the 19th Century


8. Fahmy, Khaled. All the Pashas Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern
Egypt (2002)
9. Mikhail, Alan. Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (2012)
10. Mitchell, Timothy. Colonising Egypt (1988)
11. Roger Owen, ed. New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East (2000)

Nationalism and Sectarianism


12. Anderson, Betty S. Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State (2005)
13. Bashkin, Orit. The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (2009)
14. Gelvin, James L. Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of
Empire (1998)
15. Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
(1997)
16. Makdisi, Ussama. The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in
Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (2000)

Gender and Citizenship before and after WWI


17. Baron, Beth. The Womens Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (1994)
18. Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual
Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (2005)
19. Thompson, Elizabeth. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender
in French Syria and Lebanon (1999)
20. Tucker, Judith. Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (1985)

Mass Politics, Labor, and Nationalism in the Mandate Period

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21. Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman, Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam,
and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987)
22. Dodge, Toby. Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied (2003)
23. Khoury, Philip. Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945
(1987; 2014)
24. Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-
1948 (1996)
25. zolu, Hakan. From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish
Republic (2011)
26. Sharkey, Heather J. Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan (2003)
27. Shields, Sarah D. Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the
Middle East on the Eve of World War II (2011)
28. Weiss, Max. In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shiism, and the Making of Modern
Lebanon (2010)

The Postwar Middle East I: Revolutions, Secular and Islamic


29. Abrahamian, Ervand. Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982)
30. Hinnebusch, Raymond. Syria: Revolution from Above (2003)
31. Jankowsi, James. Nassers Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic (2002) [
32. Keddie, Nikki. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of a Revolution (2003)
33. Louis, Wm. Roger, and Roger Owen, eds. A Revolutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958
(2002)
34. Takriti, Abdel Razzaq. Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman,
1965-1976 (2014)

The Postwar Middle East II: Authoritarianism, Oil, and Occupation


35. Jones, Toby Craig. Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia
(2010)
36. Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011)
37. Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National
Movement, 1949-1993 (1993)
38. Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000)
39. Stacher, Joshua. Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria (2012)
40. Vitalis, Robert. Americas Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (2006)

Gender, Popular Politics, and Everyday Life in the Late 20th and 21st Centuries
41. Bayat, Asef. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2010)
42. Davis, Rochelle A. Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (2010)
43. Mahmood, Saba. The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005;
2011)
44. Guazzone, Laura and Daniela Pioppi, eds. The Arab State and Neoliberal Globalization: The
Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East (2009)

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