| War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East |
| Acknowledgments |
 | 1. War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East |
 | 1. War, State, and Markets in the Middle East |
| 2. Guns, Gold, and Grain |
| 3. The Climax and Crisis of the Colonial Welfare State in Syria and Lebanon during World War II |
| 4. War, Keynesianism, and Colonialism |
| 2. War, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East |
| 5. Si Vis Stabilitatem, Para Bellum |
| 6. Changing Boundaries and Social Crisis |
| 7. War as Leveler, War as Midwife |
| • | Carving a Regional Niche, Acquiring International Character: Institutional Autonomy and Recognition through Conflict |
| • | War and the Ordering of Politics |
| • | Constructing Identity: Violence, the State, and Ethnicity |
| • | War, Society Building, and Elite Formation |
| • | Summary and Conclusions: The Palestinians Beyond War |
| • | Notes |
| 8. War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants |
| 9. War as a Vehicle for the Rise and Demise of a State-Controlled Society |
| 10. The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon |
| 3. Conclusion |
| • | 11. The Cumulative Impact of Middle Eastern Wars |
| Selected Bibliography |
| Contributors |