The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

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The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World is written by Cyrus Schayegh and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674981103 (ISBN 10) and 9780674981102 (ISBN 13).

How do historians make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past? Cyrus Schayegh argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio-spatial feature is not the oft-studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization, but rather the fast-paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits.