Fall of the sultanate : the Great War and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922 / Ryan Gingeras

Author:: Gingeras, Ryan
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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Series:

The greater war

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Revolution -- Crisis and Reform as Politics in the Contemporary Ottoman Empire -- Founding the Young Turk Movement -- 31 March Incident and the New Political Precedents of Ottoman Politics -- To Rule and Govern: The Challenges and Structures of Prewar Unionist Administration -- 2. Collapse on the Margins -- Signposts for Catastrophe: The Balkans, Libya, and Yemen -- War over Libya -- War over the Balkans -- Catastrophe's Aftermath: Politics and Society after the Balkan Wars -- 3. Great War -- Taking the Nation to War: Internal and External Politics -- New Nation Forged in War: Mobilization and National Politics -- Fighting Begins: From the Caucasus to the Sinai -- Gallipoli: The Great Victory -- Pyrrhic Struggle in Iraq -- Taking Stock of War in 1916 -- 4. Deportation -- Setting the Scene for Disaster: Anatolia in the Modern Era -- Unionist Anatolia: Conditions for Disaster -- Ottoman Settlement Politics and the Road to Mass Exile -- Great Disaster Commences, November 1914 -- April 1915 -- Empire Remade by Exile -- Life after Exile: International and Local Implications of the Deportations -- 5. Empire Divided -- Becoming the Arab Lands: Arab Politics and Society in the Nineteenth Century -- Arabs and Young Turks: Arab Politics and Society under the CUP -- War in the Arab Lands: The Travails of the Early War Years -- War's Bitter End: The Ottoman Retreat from the Arab Lands -- Dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Arab lands -- 6. Downfall and Repudiation -- Unionism's Fall: Ottoman Strategy and High Politics at the End of the Great War -- Last Thermidor: Wartime Society and the Development of Postwar Politics in Anatolia -- "Let us Resist": The National Movement Emerges -- "The World has Caught Fire": Massacre, Insurrection, and the End of the Ottoman Empire -- Coda: The Life and Times of the "Last Ottoman."

Summary:

After 600 years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early 20th century, the political, economic, social, and international forces of which are detailed in this study.

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Genre(s):

History

ISBN:

9780199676071 (hbk.)
0199676070 (hbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Class of 1984 Endowed Book Fund; 2015

Endowment Note:

Class of 1984 Endowed Book Fund

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