TY - BOOK AU - Halpern,Manfred TI - Politics of Social Change: In the Middle East and North Africa T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691624327 AV - HN656.A8 U1 - 309.156 22 PY - 2015///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Social change KW - Africa, North KW - Middle East KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; PART I. THE LEGACY OF THE PAST AND THE CLAIMS OF THE PRESENT --; PART II. THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY --; PART III. THE RANGE OF POLITICAL CHOICES --; PART IV. INSTRUMENTS OF POLITICAL MODERNIZATION --; PART V. THE COST AND CONSEQUENCES OF MIDDLE EASTERN CHOICES DOMESTICALLY, REGIONALLY, AND INTERNATIONALLY --; INDEX --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The author, analyzing major social groups in this area, treats particularly the "new middle class," a group socially isolated from the traditional life of Islam and committed to a wide-ranging modernizing impulse.Originally published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400875344 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400875344 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400875344.jpg ER -