Michael Provence
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Provence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Provence |
| SIGNATURE | PROVENCE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4417-2472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rebels and Rivals in a Syrian Town
A century ago, in summer 1925, the Great Syrian Revolt erupted in opposition to French mandate rule. In Saydnaya a village murder happened to coincide with the outbreak of the revolt. The young killer, in avenging his father’s earlier murder, became, first a fugitive, then an unlikely revolutionary hero, and eventually, during his long absence, a legendary figure, and repository for a number of mostly erroneous historical claims and memories. Aft…
Stateless Revolutionaries and the Aftermath of the Ottoman Great War
Stateless Revolutionaries and the Aftermath of the Ottoman Great War Commonplace European and American impressions of the Middle East focus on disorder and violence. But the Ottoman nineteenth century was less violent than in much of Europe or America. People everywhere experienced the emergence of the modern state and its claims on their resources, bodies, and consciousness. The story was similar in most of the eventual Great War belligerents: m…
Elizabeth F. Thompson. Justice Interrupted
Middle Eastern events of recent years have left many observers perplexed. What have the protesting masses hoped to achieve, and what accounts for their short-term successes or failures? Many people were surprised by the emergence of protest movements in the Middle East and imagined them as a series of spontaneous eruptions. Western intelligence agencies were likewise caught unawares. But what about the people who live in in the region, or scholar…
Unraveling the Syrian revolution
Since March 2011, Syrian citizens have challenged their government through street protests and, more recently, armed confrontations. Both the protest movement and the government’s response to it have their roots in the recent past. This article examines the contours of the last decade, and events in Syria since 2011, to understand the origins of popular protest and the origins of the Syrian government’s largely military response. Protest and diss…
Keith David Watenpaugh. Being Modern in the Middle East
Journal Article Keith David Watenpaugh. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Get access Keith David Watenpaugh. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class.Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 325. $44.00. Michael Provence Michael Provence University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East
The foundations of both Arab and Turkish nationalism lay in the late Ottoman mass education and conscription project and in the region-wide struggle against colonial rule in the 1920s and 1930s. The anticolonial insurgencies of the 1920s and 1930s have passed into history as the formative expressions of new nations: the Turkish War of Independence, the Iraqi revolt of 1920, the Syrian Battle of Maysalun, the Great Syrian Revolt, and the Palestini…
The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism
Ottoman and French Mandate Land Registers for the Region of Damascus
In late October 1999 I visited the third annual Syrian National Documentation Festival in the Damascus fairgrounds. Syrian ministry employees and Ba'th Party officials have organized the ten-day long annual Documentation Festival since the mid-1990s. Its stated purpose is to preserve and celebrate the heritage of the nation. In 1999 the exhibition was separated into four large halls devoted to different documents and art. The most prominent hall …
Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East
The foundations of both Arab and Turkish nationalism lay in the late Ottoman mass education and conscription project and in the region-wide struggle against colonial rule in the 1920s and 1930s. The anticolonial insurgencies of the 1920s and 1930s have passed into history as the formative expressions of new nations: the Turkish War of Independence, the Iraqi revolt of 1920, the Syrian Battle of Maysalun, the Great Syrian Revolt, and the Palestini…
The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism
Ottoman and French Mandate Land Registers for the Region of Damascus
In late October 1999 I visited the third annual Syrian National Documentation Festival in the Damascus fairgrounds. Syrian ministry employees and Ba'th Party officials have organized the ten-day long annual Documentation Festival since the mid-1990s. Its stated purpose is to preserve and celebrate the heritage of the nation. In 1999 the exhibition was separated into four large halls devoted to different documents and art. The most prominent hall …
Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East
The foundations of both Arab and Turkish nationalism lay in the late Ottoman mass education and conscription project and in the region-wide struggle against colonial rule in the 1920s and 1930s. The anticolonial insurgencies of the 1920s and 1930s have passed into history as the formative expressions of new nations: the Turkish War of Independence, the Iraqi revolt of 1920, the Syrian Battle of Maysalun, the Great Syrian Revolt, and the Palestini…
Unraveling the Syrian revolution
Since March 2011, Syrian citizens have challenged their government through street protests and, more recently, armed confrontations. Both the protest movement and the government’s response to it have their roots in the recent past. This article examines the contours of the last decade, and events in Syria since 2011, to understand the origins of popular protest and the origins of the Syrian government’s largely military response. Protest and diss…
Keith David Watenpaugh. Being Modern in the Middle East
Journal Article Keith David Watenpaugh. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Get access Keith David Watenpaugh. Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class.Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 325. $44.00. Michael Provence Michael Provence University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Elizabeth F. Thompson. Justice Interrupted
Middle Eastern events of recent years have left many observers perplexed. What have the protesting masses hoped to achieve, and what accounts for their short-term successes or failures? Many people were surprised by the emergence of protest movements in the Middle East and imagined them as a series of spontaneous eruptions. Western intelligence agencies were likewise caught unawares. But what about the people who live in in the region, or scholar…
Stateless Revolutionaries and the Aftermath of the Ottoman Great War
Stateless Revolutionaries and the Aftermath of the Ottoman Great War Commonplace European and American impressions of the Middle East focus on disorder and violence. But the Ottoman nineteenth century was less violent than in much of Europe or America. People everywhere experienced the emergence of the modern state and its claims on their resources, bodies, and consciousness. The story was similar in most of the eventual Great War belligerents: m…
Rebels and Rivals in a Syrian Town
A century ago, in summer 1925, the Great Syrian Revolt erupted in opposition to French mandate rule. In Saydnaya a village murder happened to coincide with the outbreak of the revolt. The young killer, in avenging his father’s earlier murder, became, first a fugitive, then an unlikely revolutionary hero, and eventually, during his long absence, a legendary figure, and repository for a number of mostly erroneous historical claims and memories. Aft…
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