'[T]his fine volume show[s] that the early wave of globalization between the 1870s and the 1940s affected the people in the Middle East in profound ways. The basic questions such as where people lived and moved, what they thought, what they liked and consumed and how they communicated were all shaped and reshaped by the forces of globalization during ... Read morethese decades - we learn that it was not only in the realm of politics but also in culture and society that this period was formative of the modern Middle East; and that far from being external or marginal to global processes, the region was centrally involved in them.' Professor Reshat Kasaba, Stanley D. Golub Chair and Director of the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington 'A Global Middle East offers the first examination of how people, objects and ideas as diverse as bees and Islamic theology, and hailing from various Middle Eastern locales, were caught up in the flux of the first wave of globalization while at once putting it in motion. It - make[s] a compelling case about how the regional is anchored in the global and vice versa, never losing sight of how these scales are themselves moving targets. Focusing on movement rather than state, on becoming rather than being, this important volume gives a sensitive and multi-angled account of the dynamics of what its editors see as "globalization from below".' Dr On Barak, Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University Show Less