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The last Ottoman wars : the human cost, 1877-1923, Jeremy Salt

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"Jeremy Salt's manuscript "The last Ottoman wars" is a unique, timely, and humane study of warfare and its many costs in a region that has been fought over and upon for centuries. The Ottoman Empire and its surrounding territories, which in this work covers the Balkans to eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, was during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth a place of political unrest and constant military action. Historians have since chronicled and contested questions of how, what, where, when, and why battlefield or diplomatic strategies failed or succeeded as they did in Ottoman-European conflicts. So too have historians questioned how and to what degree the actions of generals and statesmen, as well as financiers, resulted in ruin for millions of Ottoman peoples, specifically Armenians and other Ottoman Christians. Overlooked, according to Salt, have been millions of Ottoman Muslims, who during the time period in question were massacred and displaced before the advance and against the retreat of invading armies. This manuscript is, as Salt writes, an attempt "to bring these invisible victims of war back into the picture." "The Last Ottoman Wars" offers readers a glimpse into the daily lives of Ottoman Muslims, and indeed all ordinary Ottoman citizens. Instead of following the nations and individuals desperate to get what spoils they could from an empire in decline, Salt centers his focus on those left to live with what remained after nearly all had been taken. These people, at the edge of modernity, lived with malnutrition, disease, internecine violence, and crumbling infrastructures a generation before World War I and immediately after its devastation"--Provided by publisher
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eng
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ix, 424 pages:
Contents
  • Late Ottoman society
  • Cash flow calamities
  • A difficult land
  • Kurds and Armenians
  • The East in flames
  • Balkans crusades
  • Ejecting the Muslims
  • The young Turks
  • Italy invades Libya
  • "May God be with you"
  • Massacre and flight
  • The last Ottoman war
  • Into the abyss
  • A land in despair
  • Armenians in arms
  • The "relocation"
  • A questionable "peace"
  • Onward to Baku
  • The road to Izmir
  • End of the line
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9781607817048
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The last Ottoman wars : the human cost, 1877-1923
Title
The last Ottoman wars
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the human cost, 1877-1923
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Jeremy Salt
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"Jeremy Salt's manuscript "The last Ottoman wars" is a unique, timely, and humane study of warfare and its many costs in a region that has been fought over and upon for centuries. The Ottoman Empire and its surrounding territories, which in this work covers the Balkans to eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, was during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth a place of political unrest and constant military action. Historians have since chronicled and contested questions of how, what, where, when, and why battlefield or diplomatic strategies failed or succeeded as they did in Ottoman-European conflicts. So too have historians questioned how and to what degree the actions of generals and statesmen, as well as financiers, resulted in ruin for millions of Ottoman peoples, specifically Armenians and other Ottoman Christians. Overlooked, according to Salt, have been millions of Ottoman Muslims, who during the time period in question were massacred and displaced before the advance and against the retreat of invading armies. This manuscript is, as Salt writes, an attempt "to bring these invisible victims of war back into the picture." "The Last Ottoman Wars" offers readers a glimpse into the daily lives of Ottoman Muslims, and indeed all ordinary Ottoman citizens. Instead of following the nations and individuals desperate to get what spoils they could from an empire in decline, Salt centers his focus on those left to live with what remained after nearly all had been taken. These people, at the edge of modernity, lived with malnutrition, disease, internecine violence, and crumbling infrastructures a generation before World War I and immediately after its devastation"--Provided by publisher
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Salt, Jeremy,
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  • Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
  • War of 1912-1913 (Balkan Peninsula)
  • World War (1914-1918)
  • Turkey
  • Turkey
  • Turkey
  • Turkey
  • Turkey
  • Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878
  • Balkan Peninsula
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • Muslims
  • Armenians
  • Armenians
  • Muslims
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • Balkan Peninsula
  • Turkey
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The last Ottoman wars : the human cost, 1877-1923, Jeremy Salt
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-402) and index
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Contents
Late Ottoman society -- Cash flow calamities -- A difficult land -- Kurds and Armenians -- The East in flames -- Balkans crusades -- Ejecting the Muslims -- The young Turks -- Italy invades Libya -- "May God be with you" -- Massacre and flight -- The last Ottoman war -- Into the abyss -- A land in despair -- Armenians in arms -- The "relocation" -- A questionable "peace" -- Onward to Baku -- The road to Izmir -- End of the line
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1080251464
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
ix, 424 pages:
Isbn
9781607817048
Lccn
2018059865
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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maps
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(OCoLC)1080251464
Label
The last Ottoman wars : the human cost, 1877-1923, Jeremy Salt
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-402) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Late Ottoman society -- Cash flow calamities -- A difficult land -- Kurds and Armenians -- The East in flames -- Balkans crusades -- Ejecting the Muslims -- The young Turks -- Italy invades Libya -- "May God be with you" -- Massacre and flight -- The last Ottoman war -- Into the abyss -- A land in despair -- Armenians in arms -- The "relocation" -- A questionable "peace" -- Onward to Baku -- The road to Izmir -- End of the line
Control code
1080251464
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
ix, 424 pages:
Isbn
9781607817048
Lccn
2018059865
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1080251464

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