The Ottoman Endgame
Autor Sean McMeekinen Limba Engleză Paperback
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Lukas Prize Project (2016)
Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War I a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the wars of the Ottoman succession, we know far less than we think. The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle East much of which is still felt today.
"The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East"draws from McMeekin s years of groundbreaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives. With great storytelling flair, McMeekin makes new the epic stories we know from the Ottoman front, from Gallipoli to the exploits of Lawrence in Arabia, and introduces a vast range of new stories to Western readers. His accounts of the lead-up to World War I and the Ottoman Empire s central role in the war itself offers an entirely new and deeper vision of the conflict. Harnessing not only Ottoman and Russian but also British, German, French, American, and Austro-Hungarian sources, the result is a truly pioneering work of scholarship that gives full justice to a multitiered war involving many belligerents.
McMeekin also brilliantly reconceives our inherited Anglo-French understanding of the war s outcome and the collapse of the empire that followed. The book chronicles the emergence of modern Turkey and the carve-up of the rest of the Ottoman Empire as it has never been told before, offering a new perspective on such issues as the ethno-religious bloodletting and forced population transfers which attended the breakup of empire, the Balfour Declaration, the toppling of the caliphate, and the partition of Iraq and Syria bringing the contemporary consequences into clear focus.
Every so often, a work of history completely reshapes our understanding of a subject of enormous historical and contemporary importance."The Ottoman Endgame"is such a book, an instantly definitive and thrilling example of narrative history as high art."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143109808
ISBN-10: 0143109804
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 0143109804
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
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It is an enormous story, and McMeekin is a worthy chronicler of it ...The Ottoman Endgameis the most satisfactory and thought-through of the recent books on the subject that I have seen
A wry, delightful book, which fills in a neglected face of the war and traces the emergence of the modern Middle East
A tour de force
Masterful and sympathetic ... superb
Original and passionately written
A marvellous exposition of the historian's art
This readable, much-praised and opinionated work chronicles the Ottomans' entry into the war on Germany's side, its eventual defeat and its final dismemberment
A well-timed, well-researched exploration of the empire whose dissolution continues to complicate making sense of the contemporary Middle East. Herein are explanations of how modern Turkey, Iraq, and Syria came to be, as well as how the division of the rest of the region affected its future. Scholars and practitioners alike will benefit from reading it
It is an enormous story, and McMeekin is a worthy chronicler of it ...The Ottoman Endgameis the most satisfactory and thought-through of the recent books on the subject that I have seen
A wry, delightful book, which fills in a neglected face of the war and traces the emergence of the modern Middle East
A tour de force
Masterful and sympathetic ... superb
Original and passionately written
A marvellous exposition of the historian's art
This readable, much-praised and opinionated work chronicles the Ottomans' entry into the war on Germany's side, its eventual defeat and its final dismemberment
A well-timed, well-researched exploration of the empire whose dissolution continues to complicate making sense of the contemporary Middle East. Herein are explanations of how modern Turkey, Iraq, and Syria came to be, as well as how the division of the rest of the region affected its future. Scholars and practitioners alike will benefit from reading it
Premii
- Lukas Prize Project Nominee, 2016