HIST 572G Fall 2006

SW 314 Tuesdays 2:50-5:50

Donald Quataert, LT 610

Office Hours: T 12:45-2:00; W 1:45-3:00 or by appointment

Readings

#1-- Zachary Lockman, Contending Visions of the Middle East. The History and Politics of

Orientalism (Cambridge, 2004).

#2-- Mark Mazower, Salonica. City of Ghosts (Knopf, 2004).

#3-- John T. Chalcraft, The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and other Stories. Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914 (Albany, 2004).

#4--Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine. Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (Berkeley, 1995).

#5--Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism. Community, History and

Violence in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley, 2000).

#6--Eugene L. Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire. Transjordan, 1850-1921 (Cambridge, 1999).

#7--Taner Akcam, From Empire to Republic. Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (London, 2004).

#8--Juan R. Cole, Colonialism and revolution in the Middle East. Social and cultural origins of Egypt’s Urabi movement (Princeton UP, 1993).

#9--Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French

Syria and Lebanon (Columbia University Press, 2000).

#10-- Selim Deringil, “They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery: the Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate”; Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45, 3 (2003), 311-342.

Priya Satia, “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia,” American Historical Review, Vol. 111, Nr. 3, February 2006, 16-51.

#11—Donald Quataert "The Workers of Salonica, 1850-1912," in Donald Quataert and Erik Zurcher, eds., Workers and the Working Class in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1839-1950 (London, 1995), 59-74.

And, articles by Eyal Gino; Julia-Clancy Smith; Jens Hanssen in Eugene Rogan, ed., Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (New York and London, I.B. Tauris, 2002).

Course mechanics and requirements:

There will be a discussion leader for each session. I will be asking you to volunteer for this task. Your duty is to organize a set of questions regarding the reading assignment: this should include

--sources used;

--coherency of the argument;

--major theme or themes developed;

--contribution to the literature.

Writing Assignments:

Prepare a 7-10 page paper using one of the above weekly reading assignments to address a research topic of interest to you. This paper is due on Monday, December 11, 2006. (20 % of your final grade.)

In addition, please prepare three book reviews, assessing any three of the weekly assignments above (but not the assignment you use to write your research paper). You cannot submit more than one book review per week. (Each review is worth 20% of your final grade.)

Class participation is 20% of your final grade.