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Fall of the sultanate : the Great War and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922 / Ryan Gingeras.

By: Gingeras, Ryan [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: The greater warPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: x, 317 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780199676071 (hbk.); 0199676070 (hbk.)Subject(s): Revolution (Turkey : 1918-1923) | World War (1914-1918) | 1909-1923 | World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey | Turkey -- History -- Mehmed V, 1909-1918 | Turkey -- History -- Revolution, 1918-1923 | Turkey -- History -- Mehmed VI, 1918-1922 | TurkeyGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 956.10154 LOC classification: D520.T8 | G56 2016
Contents:
1. Revolution -- Crisis and Reform as Politics in the Contemporary Ottoman Empire -- Founding the Young Turk Movement -- 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 -- New Nation Forged in War: Mobilization and National Politics -- Fighting Begins: From the Caucasus to the Sinai -- Gallipoli: The Great Victory -- 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 -- Great Disaster Commences, November 1914 -- April 1915 -- 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 -- 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".
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Revolution -- Crisis and Reform as Politics in the Contemporary Ottoman Empire -- Founding the Young Turk Movement -- 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 -- New Nation Forged in War: Mobilization and National Politics -- Fighting Begins: From the Caucasus to the Sinai -- Gallipoli: The Great Victory -- 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 -- Great Disaster Commences, November 1914 -- April 1915 -- 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 -- 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".

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.