Joel Beinin's book offers a state-of-the-art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.

Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, California. His publications include The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (1998) and Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-65 (1990).

Introduction; 1. The world capitalist market, provincial regimes and local producers, 1750-1839; 2. Ottoman reform and European Imperialism, 1839-1907; 3. The rise of mass politics, 1908-39; 4. Fikri al-Khuli's journey to al-Mahalla al-Kubra; 5. Populist nationalism, state-led development and authoritarian regimes, 1939-73; 6. Post-populist reformation of the working-class and peasantry.