The First World War in the Middle East / Kristian Coates Ulrichsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulrichsen, Kristian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Middle East.

World War, 1914-1918.

Military campaigns.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

ix, 263 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, 2014.

Summary:

"The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and half million casualties. It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war."--Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Prelude

The political economy of the empires in 1914

Military campaigning in the Middle East

Part II. Military operations

The Caucasus campaigns

Gallipoli and Salonika

Egypt and Palestine

Mesopotamia

Part III. Politics and diplomacy

The struggle for political control in the Middle East

The post-war settlements, 1919-1923.

Credits:

This book is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.

ISBN:

1849042748

9781849042741

OCLC:

825559733

Publisher Number:

99962050397