The war that made the Middle East : World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire /
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2026]
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| Summary: | A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East. |
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| Item Description: | "The War That Made the Middle East shows that, until 1914, the Ottoman Empire was a viable multiethnic, multireligious state, and that relations between the Arabs, Jews, Muslims, and Christians of Palestine were relatively stable. When war broke out, the Ottoman government sought an alliance with the Entente but was rejected because of British and French designs on the Eastern Mediterranean. After the Ottomans entered the fight on the side of Germany and were defeated, Britain and France seized Ottoman lands and new national elites in former Ottoman territories claimed their own states. The region was renamed "the Middle East," erasing a robust and modernizing 600-year-old empire"-- Goodreads. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691262499 0691262497 |