Worldmaking in the long Great War how local and colonial struggles shaped the modern Middle East

"How did the postwar political order in the Middle East and North Africa come to be defined? While it is commonly argued that this order came about due to British and French forces imposing a series of artificial boundaries they negotiated in wartime and postwar agreements, Wyrtzen adds that it...

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Other Authors: Wyrtzen, Jonathan, 1973- autor (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Geostrategic questions, colonial scrambles, and the road to the Great War
  • The many fronts of the Ottomans' Great War (1914-1918)
  • The Middle East's so-called Wilsonian moment (1918-1920)
  • Emerging polities in the early 1920s
  • Kurdish uprisings, the Rif War, and the great Syrian revolt (1924-1927)
  • Endgame struggles in Kurdistan, Cyrenaica, and Arabia (1927-1934).