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03907aam a2200445 i 4500 001 B9E71EB2A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171003010225 008 170206t20172017mauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017001309 020 $a 0674088336 020 $a 9780674088337 035 $a (OCoLC)973199741 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a aw----- 050 00 $a DS62.4 $b .S33 2017 082 00 $a 956 $2 23 100 1 $a Schayegh, Cyrus, $e author. 245 14 $a The Middle East and the making of the modern world / $c Cyrus Schayegh. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 486 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a This book is a socio-spatial history of the Middle East, and uses that case to reflect more broadly on the making of the modern world. Pivoting around BilaÌd al-ShaÌm (Greater Syria) - alternatingly zooming in on cities and nation-states and zooming out to neighboring countries, imperial and transnational links, and overseas diasporas - it asks: Why, how, and in which stages did well-rooted cities and regions mold a dynamic modern world economy and powerful modern states, and how were they remolded in return? Covering culture, the economy, and administration from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century in five chapters, each prefaced by one person's illustrative story, the book identifies three key developments in the late Ottoman period. Cities were transformed but remained powerful; interurban ties grew stronger; and BilaÌd al-ShaÌm became more integrated. These developments did not end in 1918 but, as is shown next, deeply shaped post-Ottoman times. While quartered, BilaÌd al-ShaÌm became an umbrella region for Palestine, Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon, and forced French and British rulers to coordinate policies. And while cities lionized their weight in transnational circuits as well as reimagined themselves as national places to assert their rank in new nation-states, the latter were from the start multi-urban and transnationalized spaces. Building on the Middle Eastern case, the book argues that the modern world cannot be truly grasped by studying globalization or state formation or urbanization, as many histories do. Rather, the modern world's most fundamental socio-spatial feature is what can be called transpatialization: the intertwinement of cities, regions, states, and global circuits in faster changing and more mutually transformative ways than before in history.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prelude 1. Khalil Sakakini has a dream -- Rise of an urban patchwork region: 1830s-1914 -- Prelude 2. Rafiq al-Tamimi and Muhammad Bahjat make a tour -- Crucible of war: 1914-1918 -- Prelude 3. Alfred Sursock keeps busy -- Ottoman twilight: 1918-1929 -- Prelude 4. Hauranis migrate to Palestine -- Birth of a region of nation-states: 1929-1939 -- Prelude 5. Eliahu Rabino's war -- Empire redux: 1939-1945 -- Postscript: The more things change...?: 1945-2016. 651 0 $a Middle East $x History $y 1517- 650 0 $a Human geography $z Middle East. 650 0 $a Rural-urban relations $z Middle East $x History. 650 0 $a Civilization, Western $x Middle Eastern influences. 650 7 $a Civilization, Western $x Middle Eastern influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863159 650 7 $a Human geography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963107 650 7 $a Rural-urban relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01201131 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 648 7 $a Since 1517 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213014411.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003032527.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9E71EB2A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search