Syria in World War I: Politics, Economy, and Society

ISBN-13: 9780367874322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

M. Talha Cicek

Opis

Over the wartime period, millions of people across the Empire died as a result of warfare, epidemics, famines and massacres. However, for the Ottoman leaders their entry into the war was not just a response to a life-or-death struggle, but rather presented them with an opportunity to transform the empire into a new type of state. Syria in Wor

Recenzje

"...This is a very important contribution to the study of Syria in a crucial period...I definitely recommend this book and will personally use it in my reading lists about Syria." - Josef Olmert, Middle East Media and Books Reviews Online

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION M. Talha Çiçek Chapter 1: Myth of the Unionist Triumvirate: the Formation of the CUP Factions and their Impact in Syria during the Great War M. Talha Çiçek Chapter 2: Muhammad Kurd Ali and the Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia in the Ottoman Campaign against Arab Separatism Salim Tamari Chapter 3: A Propaganda Tour Organized by Djemal Pasha: The Arab Literati’s Visit to the Gallipoli Front, 18 - 23 October 1915 Ayhan Aktar Chapter 4: ‘We will treat you as we did with the Armenians’: Djemal Pasha, Zionism and the evacuation of Jaffa, April 1917. Roberto Mazza Chapter 5: The Ottoman Government and the Zionist Movement during the First Months of World War I Hilmar Kaiser Chapter 6: Fragments of Wartime Memories from Syria and Lebanon Najwa al-Qattan Chapter 7: Economy, Environment, and Famine: World War I from the Perspective of the Syrian Interior Elizabeth Williams Chapter 8: Shukru Bey and the Armenian Deportations in the Fall of 1915 Hilmar Kaiser

O autorze

M. Talha Çiçek is an assistant professor at the Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey, and the author of War and State Formation in Syria (Routledge, 2014).