{"product_id":"the-middle-east-from-empire-to-sealed-identities-9781474448949","title":"The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lorenzo Kamel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compelling analysis of the modern Middle East - based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages - shows the transition from an internal history characterised by local realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history largely imagined and imposed by external actors. The author demonstrates how the once-heterogeneous identities of Middle Eastern peoples were sealed into a standardised and uniform version that persists to this day. He also sheds light on the efforts that peoples in the region - in the context of a new process of homogenisation of diversities - are exerting in order to get back into history, regaining possession of their multifaceted pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46458149175447,"sku":"9781474448949","price":14097.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781474448949.webp?v=1769184418","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-middle-east-from-empire-to-sealed-identities-9781474448949","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}