Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East

Beginning in the eighteenth century, Joel Beinin's book charts the history of peasants, farmers, and the modern working-classes across the lands of the Ottoman empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states. The book, which is the first to assess the scholarly literature on the social history of the region since the 1970s, offers new insights into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find its...
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Beginning in the eighteenth century, Joel Beinin's book charts the history of peasants, farmers, and the modern working-classes across the lands of the Ottoman empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states. The book, which is the first to assess the scholarly literature on the social history of the region since the 1970s, offers new insights into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find its narrative rich in detail, and accessible and authoritative in presentation.