How Long to Read The Mediterranean Debt Crescent

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mediterranean Debt Crescent?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Mediterranean Debt Crescent by Clement M. Henry

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Rich new material. . . . combines a great deal of original material with a comparative sweep which is rare in Middle Eastern studies. It also deals fairly and squarely with some of the most important questions relating to the contemporary Middle Eastern economy."--Roger Owen, Harvard University "An important and long-awaited book. It will make a major impact on and contribution to the fields of Middle Eastern studies and comparative politics. . . . illuminates a key determinant of political change throughout the Arab world that has remained obscure in even the most comprehensive existing studies of the region's political economy: the banking system."-- Fred Lawson, Mills College Calling bankers the "midwives of political change," Clement M. Henry explores the relationships between market power and political power in five Muslim countries burdened by heavy external debts. Commercial banks occupy a strategic position in patrimonial politics: while they normally serve state patronage machines, they may unravel fragile political regimes when forced by international creditors to reform their credit practices. Under certain conditions finance capitol may acquire structural power and offer a material base for political pluralism. Henry examines the impact of financial reform and shows how authoritarian regimes have responded, looking especially at the lost opportunities for democratization in Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia and the more promising efforts in Morocco and Turkey. The biggest surprise to Western readers, he says, may be that Islamic banks still seem to be a key to democratization in much of the region. The author draws extensively on financial statements of individual banks and on historical materials and interviews with financial and political elites. Because of its comparative treatment of the Crescent's 19th-century debt crises--associated with various forms of Western domination--the book will be of interest to colonial historians as well as to political economists, sociologists, and bankers and other business people. Clement M. Henry, professor of government and Middle East studies at the University of Texas at Austin, directed the Business School at the American University of Beirut from 1981 to 1984. He is the coeditor of Oil in the New World Order (UPF, 1995) and, under the name Clement Henry Moore, is the author of Images of Development: Egyptian Engineers in Search of Industry (2nd edition, American University in Cairo Press, 1994) and editor of Maghreb et Ma�trise Technologique (Tunis: CERP, 1995).

How long is The Mediterranean Debt Crescent?

The Mediterranean Debt Crescent by Clement M. Henry is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mediterranean Debt Crescent Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Mediterranean Debt Crescent aloud.

What Reading Level is The Mediterranean Debt Crescent?

The Mediterranean Debt Crescent is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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