AuthorChaichian, Mohammad A
TitleTown and country in the Middle East : Iran and Egypt in the transition to globalization, 1800-1970 / Mohammad A. Chaichian
Imprint Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009
Descript viii, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Comparing Iran and Egypt: theoretical and methodological considerations -- Urban political economy and the search for a theory of dependent urbanization -- Iran and Egypt: comparing the incomparable? -- Dependent urbanization in Iran -- Town and country in pre-capitalist Iran, 1800-1880s -- Development of commercial capitalism and dependent urbanization in Iran, 1880-1953 -- Dependent urbanization in Iran: from the Mossadeq era to the 1979 revolution -- Uneven urban development and hyper-Urbanization in Iran: the case of Tehran -- Dependent urbanization in Egypt -- Urbanization in pre-capitalist Egypt, 1798-1882 -- British colonialism and dependent urbanization in Egypt, 1882-1952 -- Dependent urbanization in post-revolution Egypt, 1952-1970 -- Uneven urban development in Egypt: the case of Cairo -- Divergent paths of dependent urbanization in Iran and Egypt -- Dependent urbanization and development in Iran and Egypt : comparing the incomparable -- Globalization, the "new world order" and prospects for Iran and Egypt in the region


SUBJECT

  1. Cities and towns -- Iran -- History
  2. Urbanization -- Iran
  3. Cities and towns -- Egypt -- History
  4. Urbanization -- Egypt
  5. Globalization

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