Worldmaking in the Long Great War : : How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East /

Worldmaking in the Long Great War : : How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East / / Jonathan Wyrtzen.

It is widely believed that the political problems of the Middle East date back to the era of World War I, when European colonial powers unilaterally imposed artificial borders on the post-Ottoman world in postwar agreements. This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade...

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Wyrtzen, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I UNMAKING THE GREATER OTTOMAN ORDER
  • 1 GEOSTRATEGIC QUESTIONS, COLONIAL SCRAMBLES, AND THE ROAD TO THE GREAT WAR
  • 2 THE MANY FRONTS OF THE OTTOMANS’ GREAT WAR, 1914–1918
  • II REIMAGINING THE POST-OTTOMAN MIDDLE EAST
  • 3 THE MIDDLE EAST’S SO-CALLED WILSONIAN MOMENT, 1918–1920
  • 4 EMERGING POLITIES IN THE EARLY 1920S
  • III REMAKING THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
  • 5 KURDISH UPRISINGS, THE RIF WAR, AND THE GREAT SYRIAN REVOLT, 1924–1927
  • 6 ENDGAME STRUGGLES IN KURDISTAN, CYRENAICA, AND ARABIA, 1927–1934
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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