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Imperial Resilience: The Great War's End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

By Hasan Kayali

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780520975101
DOI
10.1525/9780520975101
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3010006 bytes)
Pages
272\270
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 14:33:26

Description

Imperial Resilience tells the story of the enduring Ottoman landscape of the modern Middle East's formative years from the end of the First World War in 1918 to the conclusion of the peace settlement for the empire in 1923. Hasan Kayali moves beyond both the well-known role that the First World War's victors played in reshaping the region's map and institutions and the strains of ethnonationalism in the empire's "Long War." Instead Kayali crucially uncovers local actors' searches for geopolitical solutions and concomitant collective identities based on Islamic commonality. Instead of the certainties of the nation-states that emerged in the wake of the belated peace treaty of 1923, we see how the Ottoman empire remained central in the mindset of leaders and popular groups with long-lasting consequences.

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