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Author : Mark Sykes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Through Five Turkish Provinces written by Mark Sykes and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael D. Berdine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786734060
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Redrawing the Middle East written by Michael D. Berdine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East. Yet its co-creator, Sir Mark Sykes, had far more involvement in British Middle East strategy during World War I than the Agreement for which he is now most remembered. Between 1915 and 1916, Sykes was Lord Kitchener's agent at home and abroad, operating out of the War Office until the war secretary's death at sea in 1916. Following that, from 1916 to 1919 he worked at the Imperial War Cabinet, the War Cabinet Secretariat and, finally, as an advisor to the Foreign Office. The full extent of Sykes's work and influence has previously not been told. Moreover, the general impression given of him is at variance with the facts. Sykes led the negotiations with the Zionist leadership in the formulation of the Balfour Declaration, which he helped to write, and promoted their cause to achieve what he sought for a pro-British post-war Middle East peace settlement, although he was not himself a Zionist. Likewise, despite claims he championed the Arab cause, there is little proof of this other than general rhetoric mainly for public consumption. On the contrary, there is much evidence he routinely exhibited a complete lack of empathy with the Arabs. In this book, Michael Berdine examines the life of this impulsive and headstrong young British aristocrat who helped formulate many of Britain's policies in the Middle East that are responsible for much of the instability that has affected the region ever since.
Author : James Canton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735713
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book From Cairo to Baghdad written by James Canton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1880s, British travellers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an Imperial presence in the region, as the British seized power in Egypt, the very nature of travel to the Middle East changed. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves visiting the region as British influence increased. Missionaries, soldiers and spies as well as tourists and explorers started to visit the area, creating an ever bigger supply of writers, and market for their books. In a similar fashion, as the Empire receded in the wake of World War II, so did the whole tradition of Middle East travel writing. In this elegantly crafted book, James Canton examines over one hundred primary sources, from forgotten gems to the classics of T E Lawrence, Thesiger and Philby. He analyses the relationship between Empire and author, showing how the one influenced the other, leading to a vast array of texts that might never have been produced had it not been for the ambitions of Imperial Britain. This work makes for essential reading for all of those interested in the literature of Empire, travel writing and the Middle East.
Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207739
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Looking Toward Ararat written by Ronald Grigor Suny and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new independent Republic of Armenia is established among the ruins of the Soviet Union, Armenians are rethinking their history—the processes by which they arrived at statehood in a small part of their historic homeland, and the definitions they might give to boundaries of their nation. Both a victim and a beneficiary of rival empires, Armenia experienced a complex evolution as a divided or an erased polity with a widespread diaspora. Ronald Grigor Suny traces the cultural and social transformations and interventions that created a new sense of Armenian nationality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Perceptions of antiquity and uniqueness combined in the popular imagination with the experiences of dispersion, genocide, and regeneration to forge an Armenian nation in Transcaucasia. Suny shows that while the limits of Armenia at times excluded the diaspora, now, at a time of state renewal, the boundaries have been expanded to include Armenians who live beyond the borders of the republic.
Author : Geoffrey Nash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178672071X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book From Empire to Orient written by Geoffrey Nash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Empire to Orient offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both anti-Imperialist and pro-Islamic. Geoffrey Nash places David Urquhart 's passionate belief in the ideal of municipal government in Turkey, W.S. Blunt's enthusiasm for the Egyptian reformers of the Azhar, E.G. Browne's zeal for the Persian revolution and Marmaduke Pickthall's pained advocacy of the cause of the Young Turks into their political and historical context and into the context of their writings. The author argues that the actions of these men represented a distinctive identification with the Islamic world and of the involvement of the West in its politics. By condemning Britain's manoeuvres and choice of allies in the Near East, each of these writers embellished a narrative of betrayal and a breach with the British educated classes' view of the Islamic East. Through the lives and writings of these men who identified so passionately with the Islamic world, Nash offers a fascinating perspective on Britain's late imperial period.
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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Public Library of the District of Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Scott-Keltie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270344
Total Pages : 1471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : District of Columbia. Public Library
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Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Public Library of the District of Columbia written by District of Columbia. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sato Moughalian
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609154
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Feast of Ashes written by Sato Moughalian and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem—and a granddaughter's search for his legacy. Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares—known as Armenian ceramics—are iconic features of the Holy City. Silently, these works of ceramic art—art that also graces homes and museums around the world—represent a riveting story of resilience and survival: In the final years of the Ottoman Empire, as hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcibly marched to their deaths, one man carried the secrets of this age-old art with him into exile toward the Syrian desert. Feast of Ashes tells the story of David Ohannessian, the renowned ceramicist who in 1919 founded the art of Armenian pottery in Jerusalem, where his work and that of his followers is now celebrated as a local treasure. Ohannessian's life encompassed some of the most tumultuous upheavals of the modern Middle East. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, he witnessed the rise of violent nationalism in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new ceramics tradition in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and spent his final years, uprooted, in Cairo and Beirut. Ohannessian's life story is revealed by his granddaughter Sato Moughalian, weaving together family narratives with newly unearthed archival findings. Witnessing her personal quest for the man she never met, we come to understand a universal story of migration, survival, and hope.
Author : Ian Rutledge
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863567673
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Enemy on the Euphrates written by Ian Rutledge and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for its continuing occupation of Iraq. However, with around 131,000 Arabs in arms at the height of the conflict, the British were very nearly driven out. Only a massive infusion of Indian troops prevented a humiliating rout. Enemy on the Euphrates is the definitive account of the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Bringing central players such as Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell vividly to life, Ian Rutledge's masterful account is a powerful reminder of how Britain's imperial objectives sowed the seeds of Iraq's tragic history.
Author : John Reginald Homer Weaver
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography, 1912-1921 written by John Reginald Homer Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Guest
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000817504
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Yezidis written by John S. Guest and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community’s religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community’s traumatic history and their status in the 80s. The Yezidi religious group is spread out over Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and erstwhile USSR and have retained their identity for over 500 years. The Yezidi’s believe that Lucifer, the fallen angel, has been forgiven by God and reinstated as chief angel: their history is, like their faith, characterized by dignity and survival in the face of great odds. Chapters also cover Sultan Abdul Hamid’s cruel but vain efforts to force the Yezidis to embrace Islam, leading to the emergence of Mayan Khatun, a strong-willed Yezidi princess who ruled the community from 1913-1958. They include vivid account of her rivalry with her brother Ismail and the ill-fated marriage between her son and his daughter. The final chapter describes the community in Soviet Armenia and Georgia. This book is a must read for students of Middle East studies and Middle East history.
Author : Gökhan Çetinsaya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134294956
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908 written by Gökhan Çetinsaya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringing together and analyzing an abundance of complex documents, this book is a fascinating contribution to the field of Middle Eastern studies.
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Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book New International Encyclopedia. Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Moore Colby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopedia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Moore Colby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Moore Colby
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Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia: Supplement written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
