Fall of the sultanate : the Great War and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922 / Ryan Gingeras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gingeras, Ryan, author.

Series:

Greater war

The greater war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Turkey.

World War, 1914-1918.

Turkey--History--Mehmed V, 1909-1918.

Turkey.

History.

Turkey--History--Revolution, 1918-1923.

Turkey--History--Mehmed VI, 1918-1922.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, the death throes of the sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century. This volume encompasses a full accounting of the political, economic, social, and international forces that brought about the passing of the Ottoman state. In surveying the many tragedies that transpired in the years between 1908 and 1922, Fall of the Sultanate explores the causes that eventually led so many to view the legacy of the Ottomans with loathing and resentment. The volume provides a retelling of this critical history as seen through the eyes of those who lived through the Ottoman collapse. Drawing upon a large gamut of sources in multiple languages, Ryan Gingeras strikes a critical balance in presenting and interpreting the most impactful experiences that shaped the lives of the empire's last generation. The story presented here takes into account the perspectives of the empire's diverse population as well as the leaders who piloted the state to its end. In surveying the personal, communal, and national struggles that defined Italy's invasion of Libya, the Balkan War, the Great War, and the Turkish War of Independence, Fall of the Sultanate presents readers with a fresh and comprehensive exposition of how and why Ottoman imperial ride ended in bloodshed and disillusionment. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Revolution 11

Crisis and Reform as Politics in the Contemporary Ottoman Empire 14

Founding the Young Turk Movement 28

The 31 March Incident and the New Political Precedents of Ottoman Politics 34

To Rule and Govern: The Challenges and Structures of Prewar Unionist Administration 38

2 Collapse on the Margins 53

The Signposts for Catastrophe: The Balkans, Libya, and Yemen 56

War over Libya 70

War over the Balkans 79

Catastrophe's Aftermath: Politics and Society after the Balkan Wars 90

3 Great War 101

Taking the Nation to War: Internal and External Politics 103

A New Nation Forged in War: Mobilization and National Politics 110

The Fighting Begins: From the Caucasus co the Sinai 116

Gallipoli: The Great Victory 121

A Pyrrhic Struggle in Iraq 127

Taking Stock of War in 1916 130

4 Deportation 135

Setting the Scene for Disaster: Anatolia in the Modern Era 140

Unionist Anatolia: Conditions for Disaster 151

Ottoman Settlement Politics and the Road to Mass Exile 159

The Great Disaster Commences, November 1914-April 1915 165

An Empire Remade by Exile 170

Life after Exile: International and Local Implications of the Deportations 180

5 Empire Divided 185

Becoming the Arab Lands: Arab Politics and Society in the Nineteenth Century 189

Arabs and Young Turks: Arab Politics and Society under the CUP 201

War in the Arab Lands: The Travails of the Early War Years 207

Wars Bitter End: The Ottoman Retreat from the Arab Lands 218

Dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Arab lands 227

6 Downfall and Repudiation 235

Unionism's Fall: Ottoman Strategy and High Politics at the End of the Great War 240

The Last Thermidor: Wartime Society and the Development of Postwar Politics in Anatolia 249

"Let us Resist": The National Movement Emerges 263

"The World has Caught Fire": Massacre, Insurrection, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 278

Coda: The Life and Times of the "Last Ottoman" 294.

ISBN:

9780199676071

0199676070

OCLC:

945569671