The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674088336 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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A must-read for Middle East specialists, as well as for all who are interested in international history. (Betty S. Written from a non-western perspective, Cyrus Schayegh’s book offers a much-needed challenge to how we talk about the formation of the modern world. Using stories from interviews, memoirs, diaries, and photographs, he focuses on the many pathways that sustained connections across this territory and through one hundred years of history. The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World is an innovative interpretation of the Middle East, especially the region known as Greater Syria, as both a history and a geography. Anderson, author of A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues) . (Nezar AlSayyad, author of Cairo: Histories of a City)Cyrus Schayegh has brought to life the interlocking imperial, national, local, urban, and regional layers of nineteenth and twentieth century Greater Sy
These developments did not cease with the Ottoman Empire’s collapse after World War I. For centuries, the major cities of this regionDamascus, Aleppo, Jerusalem, and Beirutexercised a degree of autonomy. Cities remained powerful, but their ties to one another grew stronger as the region became more integrated. In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh presents an innovative socio-spatial history that traces how different geographic areas and networks molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.Centering his study on an area roughly coextensive with modern Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel and Palestine, Schayegh examines the complex interplay of local and transregional forces in a diverse territory that first came under Ottoman rule in the 1500s. But in the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire, responding to the ri
Cyrus Schayegh is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.