Middle Eastern history and Egyptian history have long been influenced by the understanding that the world is inherently connected. A few seminal texts have taken this understanding further and attempted to show Egypt and the Middle East’s engagement with the World. However, the study of Egyptian and Middle Eastern history in terms of a world historical methodological approach has yet to be done so sufficiently. Particularly, economic history is an entry point in which the role of global forces or the role of global forces and influences impact Egyptian history. The two texts under analysis illustrate the role of Egyptian Economic History as a potential model to study economic history in the field of world history. Particularly these texts attempt to systematize a socio-economic landscape of the early modern and modern periods. Although these works focus specifically on a bounded nation state, the lack of regional and local engagement in world history beckons for a meta/micro-historical interchange. Simultaneously, this paper will show that the two texts under analysis would benefit greatly from meta-narrative historical analysis in order to tie Egyptian economic history to both the region and the world, since economics is an inherently global phenomenon.