Historicising the Left in the Middle East
On Agency, Archives and Anti-capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12673166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salem (0000-0002-7872-5613, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 230-240 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1569206x-12341547 |
| OpenAlex | W2792631587 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article is a review of Ilham Khuri-Makdisi’s book The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1860–1914 . I argue that this book is a valuable contribution to historiographies of the Left in the Middle East, a field that remains under-represented given the importance of labour to the nationalist movements as well as broader worker-activism in the region throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I review the main debates of the book, and raise critical questions about aspects that could have been probed further, among them the questions of imperialism and race in contexts such as Egypt and Lebanon, and the relationship(s) between workers and the radical intellectuals discussed throughout the book
Agency (philosophy · Capitalism · Middle East · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |