Verfasst von:	Schayegh, Cyrus [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The Middle East and the making of the modern world
Verf.angabe:	Cyrus Schayegh
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
Verlag:	Harvard University Press
E-Jahr:	2017
Jahr:	[2017]
Umfang:	486 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Karten
Format:	25 cm
Fussnoten:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Ang. zum Inhalt:	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
ISBN:	978-0-674-08833-7
	0-674-08833-6
Abstract:	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 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 Bilād al-Shām became more integrated. These developments did not end in 1918 but, as is shown next, deeply shaped post-Ottoman times. While quartered, Bilād al-Shām 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.--
Schlagwörter:	(g)Syrien    / (g)Jordanien    / (g)Israel    / (g)Libanon    / (g)Palästina    / (z)Geschichte 1850-1950
	(s)Verstädterung    / (s)Regionalentwicklung    / (s)Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung    / (s)Weltwirtschaft    / (s)Regionalplanung    / (s)Geschichte    / (s)Politischer Prozess    / (s)Nationenbildung    / (s)Kolonialismus    / (s)Nationalismus    / (s)Geopolitik    / (g)Naher Osten    / (g)Mittlerer Osten    / (g)Nordafrika
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Schayegh, Cyrus, 1972 - : The Middle East and the making of the modern world. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 486 Seiten)
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Schayegh, Cyrus, 1972 - : The Middle East and the making of the modern world. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (486 Seiten)
K10plus-PPN:	880681535