Shattering Empires - The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires: 1908-1918

Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Klappentext A pioneering study of the causes and consequences of the rivalry and collapse of the great Ottoman and Russian empires. Zusammenfassung The fall of the Ottoman and Russian empires irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia. Drawing on extensive archival research! Shattering Empires overturns accounts that attribute their demise to conflicting nationalisms! proposing instead the significance of geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global inter-state order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The high politics of anarchy and competition; 2. Troubles in Anatolia: imperial insecurities and the transformation of borderland politics; 3. Visions of vulnerability: the politics of Muslims, revolutionaries, and defectors; 4. Out of the pan, into the fire: empires at war; 5. Remastering Anatolia: rending nations, rending empires; 6. Brest-Litovsk and the opening of the Caucasus; 7. Forced to be free: the geopolitics of independence in the Transcaucasus; 8. Racing against time; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Michael A. Reynolds, Reynolds Michael A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521195539
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19553-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Ottoman Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Islamic Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1910 to c 1919, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, USSR, Soviet Union, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)