Worldmaking in the long Great War : how local and colonial struggles shaped the modern Middle East / Jonathan Wyrtzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyrtzen, Jonathan, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Middle East.

World War, 1914-1918.

Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945.

Middle East.

Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Unmaking the Greater Ottoman Order

1. Geostrategic Questions, Colonial Scrambles, and the Road to the Great War

2. The Many Fronts of the Ottomans' Great War, 1914-1918

Part II: Reimagining the Post-Ottoman Middle East

3. The Middle East's So-Called Wilsonian Moment, 1918-1920

4. Emerging Polities in the Early 1920s

Part III: Remaking the Modern Middle East

5. Kurdish Uprisings, the Rif War, and the Great Syrian Revolt, 1924-1927

6. Endgame Struggles in Kurdistan, Cyrenaica, and Arabia, 1927-1934

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wyrtzen, Jonathan Worldmaking in the Long Great War

ISBN:

0-231-54657-2

OCLC:

1336403490