Imperial Resilience: The Great War's End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

by Hasan Kayali

Overview

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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520343702
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	10/26/2021
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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