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The Great War and the Middle East
Rob Johnson
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Description for The Great War and the Middle East
Hardback. The story of the First World War in the Middle East - and how it swept away five hundred years of Ottoman rule to lay the foundations for the troubled Middle East that we know today. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 black & whilte illustrations, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBLW; HBW; HBWN; JWD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 246 x 27. Weight in Grams: 698.
The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia or the modernizing Atatürk, and destroyed others. And it completely re-drew the map of the region, forging a host of new nation states, including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia - all of them (with the exception of Turkey) under the 'protection' of the victor powers, Britain and France. For ... Read more
The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia or the modernizing Atatürk, and destroyed others. And it completely re-drew the map of the region, forging a host of new nation states, including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia - all of them (with the exception of Turkey) under the 'protection' of the victor powers, Britain and France. For ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
697g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199683284
SKU
V9780199683284
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About Rob Johnson
Rob Johnson is the Director of the Changing Character of War (CCW) research programme at Oxford University (www.history.ox.ac.uk/ccw). The CCW Programme brings together academics, policy makers and armed forces in the study of war, pursuing a variety of research themes including the future character of war; war and the state in a connected world; unconventional warfare; strategy and war, and ... Read more
Reviews for The Great War and the Middle East
A very readable 'single volume' for any military history buff to gain an excellent overall picture of what most definitely was not a 'minor sideshow' to the Western Front.
Neville Taylor, RUSI-Vic Library
A welcome addition... will be particularly interesting to those looking to study diverse aspects of the First World War in the Middle East, explained within ... Read more
Neville Taylor, RUSI-Vic Library
A welcome addition... will be particularly interesting to those looking to study diverse aspects of the First World War in the Middle East, explained within ... Read more