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Fall of the sultanate : the Great War and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922 Cover Image

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

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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ISBN: 9780199676071
ISBN: 0199676070
Physical Description: print
x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 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 -- 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."