The Middle East and the Making of the Modern WorldIn The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world's ultimate socio spatial feature was not the oft studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization. Rather, it was fast paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits, a bundle of