Sorrowful Shores - Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923

Zusatztext fascinating book ... a ground-breaking study Informationen zum Autor Ryan Gingeras is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. Raised and educated in San Diego, California, he received his doctorate in history in 2006 from the University of Toronto. He currently resides in New York City. Klappentext The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. In the years leading up to the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence. Sorrowful Shores presents a unique history of these bloody years of social and political transformation. Zusammenfassung The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. In the years leading up to the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence. Sorrowful Shores presents a unique history of these bloody years of social and political transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Before they Became Turks: Immigration, Political Economy and Identity in the Prewar South Marmara 2: The Politics of the Condemned: The South Marmara during the First World War 3: In the Company of Killers: Crime, Recruitment and the Birth of the National Movement in the South Marmara 4: The Politics of Revenge: The Rise and Fall of the Loyalist Opposition in the South Marmara 5: Separatism, Violence and Collaboration in Bandit Country: The South Marmara during the Greek Occupation 6: Settling Accounts: Circassians, Albanians and the Founding of the Turkish Republic Conclusion Appendix One: Cast of Characters Appendix Two: Glossary of Terms Bibliography

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• Authors: Ryan Gingeras, Ryan (Assistant Professor Gingeras, Gingeras Ryan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9780199561520
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956152-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Middle East, Armenia, Greece, Turkey, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Modern warfare, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, Türkiye / Turkey