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An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover, New Ed)
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An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Economic History
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The economic history of the Middle East and North Africa is quite
extraordinary.
This is an axiomatic statement, but the very nature of the economic
changes that have stemmed directly from the effects of oil
resources in these areas has tended to obscure longterm patterns of
economic change and the fundamental transformation of Middle
Eastern and North African economies and societies over the past two
hundred years.
In this study Professor Issawi examines and explains the
development of these economies since 1800, focusing particularly on
the challenge posed by the use and subsequent decline of Western
economic and political domination and the Middle Eastern response
to it. The book beg ins with an analysis of the effects of foreign
intervention in the area: the expansion of trade, the development
of transport networks, the influx of foreign capital and resulting
integration into international commercial and financial networks.
It goes on to examine the local response to these external forces:
migration within, to and from the region, population growth,
urbanization and changes in living standards, shifts in
agricultural production and land tenure and the development of an
industrial sector. Professor Issawi discusses the crucial effects
of the growth of oil and oil-related industries in a separate
chapter, and finally assesses the likely gains and losses in this
long period for both the countries in the area and the Western
powers. He has drawn on long experience and an immense amount of
material in surveying the period, and provides a clear and
penetrating survey of an extraordinarily complex area.
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