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Worldmaking in the long Great War : how local and colonial struggles shaped the modern Middle East
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This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it de...
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors
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- Creator
- Jonathan Wyrtzen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
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- ISBNs
- 0231546572, 9780231186285, 9780231186292, 9780231546577, 0231186290, 0231186282
- OCLC
- on1336403490
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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