Interwar crossroads entangled histories of the Middle Eastern and North Atlantic world between the world wars
Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today. However, many of the manifold connections, exchanges, and entanglements between t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Bielefeld, Germany :
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[2023]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Global- und Kolonialgeschichte
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009800227606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Relevant Fields of Research
- Goals and Premises
- Temporal and Spatial Organization
- Contributions
- Hotels, Immigrant Houses, and Special Neighborhoods
- Literatures in Conversation: Imperialism, "Lausanne Wisdom", and the Global Intellectual History of the Nation
- Late Ottoman Jaffa as a "Portal of Globalization": Mobility, Migration, and Urban Separatism
- Urban Disengagement and Partition under British Rule: The First Hebrew City as a Laboratory for National Independence
- Conclusion
- From Their Classes to the Masses
- Rural Service and Expertise in the Interwar American Mission
- Ordering Rural Leisure in the VWS Summer Camps
- Rural Modernity from the VWS to International Developmentalism
- Conclusion
- A Clash of Concepts
- The method: A configuration of variables for a single case study
- One framework touching multiple discussions
- A split based on theory: Labor internationalization and the ascendance of the Comintern
- Moscow or Amsterdam? Organized labor goes international
- The Comintern's overall strategy towards the "East"
- Reality beyond theory: Organized labor in Lebanese history
- The dispositive of the Guilds
- A union is not a labor union: Levantine organized labor and the Communist Party
- The Nationalist current as a competitor in anti‐colonialism
- The policy of soft indoctrination and Lebanese organized labor
- The typographers' association: Communist influence, yet not revolutionary
- The positive and negative repercussions of Bolshevization
- The strategy of the French Mandate: To domesticate, cull and isolate organized labor
- Labor legislation as a strategic pillar against a labor movement
- Limiting contacts to international organizations
- The establishment of counter‐institutions.
- Internationally organized labor and the boundaries of solidarity
- High hopes, sobering performance: The International Labor Organization and the colonial clause
- Anti‐colonialism, the Rif Crisis, and the limits of solidarity
- Concluding remarks and outlook
- Contesting Imperialism in Geneva
- The Imperial Peace of Saint Germain
- Iranian Nationalism and Arms‐Traffic Control
- Showdown in Geneva
- Contesting Imperialism
- Helpless Imperialists
- Conclusion
- Post‐Ottoman Diasporas, Identity Formation, and American World's Fairs in the Interwar Period
- The Historical Background of Ottoman and post‐Ottoman Migration to the United States
- Challenges
- The Fairs as a Channel of Dialogue between Diasporas and their New and Old Countries
- Exhibiting Native Cultures
- Conclusion
- Translation as Means of Self‐representation in Weimar Berlin Muslim Journals
- Muslim Networks and Infrastructures in Berlin
- Berlin Muslim Journals as Sites of Translation
- Multilingual Journals
- Translation in international journalistic and political networks
- Translating 'Islamic Tradition'
- Resonances in the non‐Muslim Environment: Between Fascination, Support, Rejection, and Securitization
- Conclusion
- Beyond Sea and Desert
- I Freya Stark
- Infrastructure and Logistics
- Mesopotamia and the (Middle) East
- Uneven Mobility on Similar Routes
- II Yusuf Ghanima
- Experiencing Luxury, Solitude, and Distance
- Visits and Encounters Along the Way: Multiple Identifications
- Conclusion
- A Fort under Another Name
- "Imperial" Architecture and Bedouin "Control" in Transjordan (1930-1936)
- John Glubb and Britain's "principles of desert control"
- "New" desert outposts: Mudawara, Bayir, and Azraq
- Qaʿ al‑Jafr and Bedouin sheikhs as patrons of architecture
- Architecture and the Ikhwan Crisis (1927-1930)
- Ikhwan raids on Busayya.
- Bedouin architecture in Iraq
- Architecture and the Ikhwan crisis
- Constructing the Bedouin as a Scholarly Subject, at Home and Abroad
- Loopholes in the Law
- The Logic of Honor Killings
- Law under the Mandate
- Gendered Sentencing
- Intraimperial Tolerance for Honor Violence
- Conclusion
- List of Contributors
- Illustration Credits
- Index.
