The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World /

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World / / Cyrus Schayegh.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Schayegh, Cyrus,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 9 halftones, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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