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Year of the locust : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / Salim Tamari.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tamārī, Salīm.
- Turjman, Ihsan Salih, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- ʻĀm al-jarād. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turjman, Ihsan Hasan, 1893-1917--Diaries.
- Turjman, Ihsan Hasan.
- Turkey. Ordu--History--World War, 1914-1918.
- Turkey.
- World War, 1914-1918--Palestine.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Jerusalem.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Middle East.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Turkish.
- Soldiers--Jerusalem--Diaries.
- Soldiers.
- Turks--Jerusalem--Diaries.
- Turks.
- Jerusalem--History, Military--20th century.
- Jerusalem.
- Jerusalem--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets-soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine
- The Diary of Ihsan Turjman
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613277893
- 9781283277891
- 1283277891
- 9780520948785
- 0520948785
- OCLC:
- 739051457
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