TY - BOOK AU - Gingeras,Ryan TI - Fall of the sultanate: the Great War and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922 T2 - The greater war SN - 9780199676071 (hbk.) AV - D520.T8 G56 2016 U1 - 956.10154 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Revolution (Turkey : 1918-1923) KW - World War (1914-1918) KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Turkey KW - History KW - Mehmed V, 1909-1918 KW - Revolution, 1918-1923 KW - Mehmed VI, 1918-1922 N1 - 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" N2 - 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 ER -