TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tejel,Jordi
AU  - Öztan,Ramazan Hakkı
TI  - Regimes of mobility: borders and state formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946 
SN  - 1474487963
AV  - DS63 .R43 2022
U1  - 956/.03 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - Middle East
KW  - boundaries
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Influence
KW  - nli
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 1914-1945
KW  - Moyen-Orient
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge popular depictions of the emergence of the modern Middle East. For them, the region's borderlands were not just mere sites of peripheral activity, but rather liminal spaces criss-crossed by global flows and circulations central to state- and nation-formation across the Middle East. Regimes of Mobility offers a select number of case studies that highlight the connectedness of the politics of borderlands throughout the interwar Middle East. The emergence of the modern Middle East is the result of three complementary historical developments: the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the institution of British and French control in its stead and the nationalist challenges to this colonial scramble. The introduction of international borders that accompanied this process is commonly portrayed as the drawing of lines in the sand, an artificial partitioning that brought diplomatic closure to an otherwise contested historical space"--Publisher's website
ER  -