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The War That Made The Middle East: World War I And The End Of The Ottoman Empire
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A New History That Tells The Story Of How European Imperial Ambitions Destroyed The Ottoman Empire During The Great War And Created A Divided And Unstable Middle Eastthe Ottoman EmpireS Collapse At The End Of The First World War Is Often Treated As A Foregone Conclusion. It Was Only A Matter Of Time, The Story Goes, Before The SoCalled Sick Man Of Europe Succumbed To Its AilmentsIncompetent Management, Nationalism, And Ethnic And Religious Conflict. In The War That Made The Middle East, Mustafa Aksakal Overturns This Conventional Narrative. He Describes How European Imperial Ambitions And The Ottoman Commitment To Saving Its Empire At Any CostIncluding The Destruction Of The Armenian Community And The Deaths Of More Than A Million Ottoman Troops And Other CiviliansLed To The EmpireS Violent Partition And Created A Politically Unstable Middle East.The War That Made The Middle East Shows That, Until 1914, The Ottoman Empire Was A Viable Multiethnic, Multireligious State, And That Relations Between The Arabs, Jews, Muslims, And Christians Of Palestine Were Relatively Stable. When War Broke Out, The Ottoman Government Sought An Alliance With The Entente But Was Rejected Because Of British And French Designs On The Eastern Mediterranean. After The Ottomans Entered The Fight On The Side Of Germany And Were Defeated, Britain And France Seized Ottoman Lands, And New National Elites In Former Ottoman Territories Claimed Their Own States. The Region Was Renamed The Middle East, Erasing A Robust And Modernizing 600YearOld Empire.A Sweeping Narrative Of War, Great Power Politics, And Ordinary People Caught Up In The Devastation, The War That Made The Middle East Offers New Insights About The Great War And Its Profound And Lasting Consequences.
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