The last days of the Ottoman Empire /
Gingeras, Ryan
The last days of the Ottoman Empire / Ryan Gingeras. - viii, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, despite its successfully defending itself for much of the war, doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago.
9780241444320 0241444322
1288-1923
Turkey--History--Mehmed V, 1909-1918
Turkey--History--Revolution, 1918-1923
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Turkey
History
DR583 / .G5 2022
956.10154
The last days of the Ottoman Empire / Ryan Gingeras. - viii, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, despite its successfully defending itself for much of the war, doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago.
9780241444320 0241444322
1288-1923
Turkey--History--Mehmed V, 1909-1918
Turkey--History--Revolution, 1918-1923
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Turkey
History
DR583 / .G5 2022
956.10154