{"product_id":"the-middle-east-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world-9780674088337","title":"The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Schayegh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - Turkey \u0026amp; Ottoman Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Middle East and the Making of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46418241781911,"sku":"9780674088337","price":6845.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674088337.webp?v=1769070340","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-middle-east-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world-9780674088337","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}