TY - BOOK AU - Schayegh,Cyrus TI - The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World SN - 9780674981096 AV - DS62 PY - 2018///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access N2 - Cyrus Schayegh’s socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Building on this case, he shows that the making of the modern world is best seen as the reciprocal transformation of cities, regions, states, and global networks UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674981096 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674981096 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674981096.jpg ER -