The Middle East and the making of the modern world [electronic resource] / Cyrus Schayegh.

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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 Bilād al-Shām (Greater Syria) - alternatingly zooming in on cities and nation-states and zooming out to neighboring countries, imperial and transna...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schayegh, Cyrus (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Human geography > Middle East.
Rural-urban relations > Middle East > History.
Civilization, Western > Middle Eastern influences.
Middle East > History > 1517-
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.