Hasan Kayali 
Imperial Resilience [EPUB ebook] 
The Great War’s End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

Imperial Resilience tells the story of the enduring Ottoman landscape of the modern Middle East’s formative years from the end of the First World War in 1918 to the conclusion of the peace settlement for the empire in 1923. Hasan Kayali moves beyond both the well-known role that the First World War’s victors played in reshaping the region’s map and institutions and the strains of ethnonationalism in the empire’s ’Long War.’ Instead, Kayali crucially uncovers local actors’ searches for geopolitical solutions and concomitant collective identities based on Islamic commonality. Instead of the certainties of the nation-states that emerged in the wake of the belated peace treaty of 1923, we see how the Ottoman Empire remained central in the mindset of leaders and popular groups, with long-lasting consequences. 

Innehållsförteckning

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Preface


Introduction: Empire-to-Nation Transition and Historical Representations


1 • Unfolding of an Ottoman Project in the Age of Nation: The Quest to Preserve the Ottoman State

2 • Reversals of Fortune and Resilience: The Last Year of the Great War

3 • Anti-colonial Resistance and the Search for Self-Determination

4 • State Transformations: Anatolian Movement and the Fertile Crescent, 1920–1922

5 • Struggle for Redemption and Imperial Dissolution


Conclusion


Notes

Bibliography

Index

Om författaren

Hasan Kayalı is the author of Arabs and Young Turks and is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.