The Middle East Revolutions: A Framework for Analysis (Working Class Rising Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)Catherine Claxton-Dong
PublisherBrown Swan Publishers
ISBN / ASINB004R1Q69M
ISBN-13978B004R1Q694
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
When you were contemplating the events that might occur in the Middle East in 2011:
Did you expect that Tunisians would have a revolution and throw out their president of 23 years?
Did you think that Hosni Mubarak would have to flee Egypt, after thirty years of rule, because the people would suddenly rise up against him?
The Middle East has changed overnight.
Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Algeria, Djibouti...these are just some of the countries that are also now facing working class revolts.
These demonstrations by the people have all taken us by surprise, and yet — they’ve happened before.
In The Middle East Revolutions, from her Working Class Rising series, Dr. Claxton-Dong provides a framework for analyzing events in the Middle East, based on the history of similar mass mobilizations of the working class.
Short, yet packed with facts and easy-to-understand pie charts, thought-provoking, yet reader-friendly, this book blends the immediacy of what has been happening on-the-ground in the Middle East, with an examination of similar revolutionary periods in the past.
Drawing primarily on working class mass mobilizations in western Europe and the United States from the 19th and 20th centuries, Dr. Claxton-Dong shows us the characteristics that these have in common. She uses historical data to draw conclusions about the features of these types of revolutions — features she applies to what is going on today.
This book provides a fascinating template that proposes answers to such questions as:
1. What has caused this sudden change in the people of the Middle East?
2. How committed are these revolutionaries likely to be to democracy, and how long and hard will they fight for it?
3. How can we expect what is going on to affect the rest of the world?
If you’re looking for a book with new information and insight, that provides a different perspective on the revolutions in the Middle East, you won't be disappointed.
Did you expect that Tunisians would have a revolution and throw out their president of 23 years?
Did you think that Hosni Mubarak would have to flee Egypt, after thirty years of rule, because the people would suddenly rise up against him?
The Middle East has changed overnight.
Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Algeria, Djibouti...these are just some of the countries that are also now facing working class revolts.
These demonstrations by the people have all taken us by surprise, and yet — they’ve happened before.
In The Middle East Revolutions, from her Working Class Rising series, Dr. Claxton-Dong provides a framework for analyzing events in the Middle East, based on the history of similar mass mobilizations of the working class.
Short, yet packed with facts and easy-to-understand pie charts, thought-provoking, yet reader-friendly, this book blends the immediacy of what has been happening on-the-ground in the Middle East, with an examination of similar revolutionary periods in the past.
Drawing primarily on working class mass mobilizations in western Europe and the United States from the 19th and 20th centuries, Dr. Claxton-Dong shows us the characteristics that these have in common. She uses historical data to draw conclusions about the features of these types of revolutions — features she applies to what is going on today.
This book provides a fascinating template that proposes answers to such questions as:
1. What has caused this sudden change in the people of the Middle East?
2. How committed are these revolutionaries likely to be to democracy, and how long and hard will they fight for it?
3. How can we expect what is going on to affect the rest of the world?
If you’re looking for a book with new information and insight, that provides a different perspective on the revolutions in the Middle East, you won't be disappointed.
