Eugene Rogan Books in Order

Essays drawing on local records and field research examine how modern Jordan developed through relations among villagers, pastoral communities, and government. They place domestic social change at the center of a history often told through foreign influence.

Spanning ancient Egypt to the modern era, these essays examine farming, irrigation, technology, and commercialization. They investigate how rulers, landowners, and cultivators shaped agricultural production and how changes in rural life connected with wider political and economic developments.

These essays explore people and communities at the margins of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle Eastern societies. Cases across the region examine how social boundaries, institutions, and prohibitions defined belonging while marginal groups negotiated their place.

An outbreak of violence against Christians in Damascus in 1860 becomes the starting point for a history of sectarian conflict and reconstruction. Eugene Rogan examines eyewitness accounts and Ottoman responses to explain the massacre’s wider significance.

Eugene Rogan recounts five centuries of Arab history, beginning with Ottoman rule and following European imperial intervention and later struggles for independence. The narrative considers how foreign powers and regional movements have shaped Arab political experience.