History 111 - Making of Modern Middle East

'Survey of the factors shaping principal political, economic, and social life in the Middle East and North Africa from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Examines multiplicity of societies, customs, and traditions; British, French, and U.S. imperialism; the creation of modern states; development of nationalist, socialist, and Islamist wars and the geopolitics of oil. Throughout, special attention will be devoted to the changes affecting the lives of individuals and social groups like women, workers, and peasants.'