"This volume is the result of a project on war and social change in the Middle East, directed and sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (335-356) and index.

War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East / Steven Heydeman -- Guns, gold and grain: war and food supply in the making of Transjordan / Tariq Tell -- The climax and crisis of the colonial welfare state in Syria and Lebanon during World War II / Elizabeth Thompson -- War, Keynesianism, and colonialism: explaining state-market relation in the postwar Middle East / Robert Vitalsim and Steven Heydemann -- Si vis stabilitatem, para bellum: state building, national security, and war preparation in Syria / Volker Perthes -- Changing boundaries and social crisis: Israel and the 1967 war / Joel S. Migdal -- War as leveler, war as midwife :Palestinian political institution, nationalism, and society since 1948 -- Yezid Sayigh -- War in the social memory of Egyptian peasants / Reem Saad -- War as a vehicle for the rise and demise of state-controlled society: the case of Ba'thist Iraq / Isam Al-Khafaji -- The political economy of civil war in Lebanon / Elizabeth Picard -- The cumulative impact of Middle Eastern Wars / Roger Owen.

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