World War I and the End of the Ottomans
From the Balkan Wars to the Armenian Genocide
Maurus Reinkowski editor Hans-Lukas Kieser editor Kerem Öktem editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:28th Sep '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
With the end of the First World War, the centuries-old social fabric of the Ottoman world an entangled space of religious co-existence throughout the Balkans and the Middle East came to its definitive end. In this new study, Hans-Lukas Kieser argues that while the Ottoman Empire officially ended in 1922, when the Turkish nationalists in Ankara abolished the Sultanate, the essence of its imperial character was destroyed in 1915 when the Young Turk regime eradicated the Armenians from Asia Minor. This book analyses the dynamics and processes that led to genocide and left behind today s crisis-ridden post-Ottoman Middle East. Going beyond Istanbul, the book also studies three different but entangled late Ottoman areas: Palestine, the largely Kurdo-Armenian eastern provinces and the Aegean shores; all of which were confronted with new claims from national movements that questioned the Ottoman state. All would remain regions of conflict up to the present day.Using new primary material, World War I and the End of the Ottoman World brings together analysis of the key forces which undermined an empire, and marks an important new contribution to the study of the Ottoman world and the Middle East. "
ISBN: 9781784532468
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 522g
320 pages