The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio-spatial feature was not the oft-studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization. Rather, it was fast-paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits, a bundle of processes he calls transpatialization.

To make this case, Schayegh’s study pivots around Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham in Arabic), which is roughly coextensive with present-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. From this region, Schayegh looks beyond, to imperial and global connections, diaspora communities, and neighboring Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. And he peers deeply into Bilad al-Sham: at cities and their ties, and at global economic forces, the Ottoman and European empire-states, and the post-Ottoman nation-states at work within the region. He shows how diverse socio-spatial intertwinements unfolded in tandem during a transformative stretch of time, the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, and concludes with a postscript covering the 1940s to 2010s.

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The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio-spatial feature was not the oft-studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization. Rather, it was fast-paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits, a bundle of processes he calls transpatialization.

To make this case, Schayegh’s study pivots around Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham in Arabic), which is roughly coextensive with present-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. From this region, Schayegh looks beyond, to imperial and global connections, diaspora communities, and neighboring Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. And he peers deeply into Bilad al-Sham: at cities and their ties, and at global economic forces, the Ottoman and European empire-states, and the post-Ottoman nation-states at work within the region. He shows how diverse socio-spatial intertwinements unfolded in tandem during a transformative stretch of time, the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, and concludes with a postscript covering the 1940s to 2010s.

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The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

by Cyrus Schayegh
The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

by Cyrus Schayegh

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In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio-spatial feature was not the oft-studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization. Rather, it was fast-paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits, a bundle of processes he calls transpatialization.

To make this case, Schayegh’s study pivots around Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham in Arabic), which is roughly coextensive with present-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. From this region, Schayegh looks beyond, to imperial and global connections, diaspora communities, and neighboring Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. And he peers deeply into Bilad al-Sham: at cities and their ties, and at global economic forces, the Ottoman and European empire-states, and the post-Ottoman nation-states at work within the region. He shows how diverse socio-spatial intertwinements unfolded in tandem during a transformative stretch of time, the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, and concludes with a postscript covering the 1940s to 2010s.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674981102
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 08/28/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 496
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Cyrus Schayegh is Associate Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Map 1. Ottoman Greater Syria, 1888 to World War I Map 2. Railroads in Greater Syria, 1914 Map 3. Greater Syria in the Mandate Period Introduction Prelude 1. Khalil Sakakini Has a Dream 1. Rise of an Urban Patchwork Region: 1830s–1914 Prelude 2. Rafiq al-Tamimi and Muhammad Bahjat Make a Tour 2. Crucible of War: 1914–1918 Prelude 3. Alfred Sursock Keeps Busy 3. Ottoman Twilight: 1918–1929 Prelude 4. Hauranis Migrate to Palestine 4. Toward a Region of Nation-States: 1929–1939 Prelude 5. Eliahu Rabino’s War 5. Empire Redux: 1939–1945 Postscript. The More Things Change: 1945–2017 Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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