Fall of the sultanate : the Great War and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922 /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Greater war.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents ; List of Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1: Revolution; Crisis and Reform as Politics in the Contemporary Ottoman Empire; Founding the Young Turk Movement; The 31 March Incident and the New Political Precedents of Ottoman Politics; To Rule and Govern: The Challenges and Structures of Prewar Unionist Administration; Chapter 2: Collapse on the Margins; The Signposts for Catastrophe: The Balkans, Libya, And Yemen; War Over Libya; War Over the Balkans
- Catastrophe's Aftermath: Politics And Society After the Balkan WarsChapter 3: Great War; Taking The Nation to War: Internal And External Politics; A New Nation Forged in War: Mobilization and National Politics; The Fighting Begins: From the Caucasus to the Sinai; Gallipoli: The Great Victory; A Pyrrhic Struggle in Iraq; Taking Stock of War in 1916; Chapter 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; The Great Disaster Commences, November 1914-April 1915
- An Empire Remade by ExileLife After Exile: International and Local Implications of the Deportations; Chapter 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; Chapter 6: Downfall and Repudiation; Unionism's Fall: Ottoman Strategy and High Politics at the End of the Great War
- The 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"; Bibliography; Archives; Newspapers, Document Collections, and Periodicals; Books and Manuscripts; Index