The Last Treaty - Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East

In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East and reassesses the military operations, humanitarian activities and diplomatic dealings that continued after the signing of Versailles in 1919. She shows how, on the Middle Eastern Front, Britain and France directed Allied war strategy against a resurgent Ottoman Empire to sustain an imperial system that favored Europe's dominance within the nascent international system. The protracted nature of the conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis proved devastating for the civilian populations caught in its wake and increasingly questioned old certainties about a European-led imperial order and humanitarian intervention. Its consequences would transform the postwar world.

List of contents

List of figures; List of maps; Acknowledgements; Note on place names and names in the text; Introduction; Part I Conflict: 1. How World War I came to the Middle East; 2. The Middle Eastern Front; Part II Occupation: 3. Civilians at war; 4. How war didn't end; Part III Making peace: 5. The Treaty of Sèvres; 6. Humanitarian crusades; 7. The Treaty of Lausanne; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her previous publications include The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide (2017), Smyrna's Ashes (2012) and Women Making News (2006).

Product details

• Authors: Tusan Michelle
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.12.2025
• EAN: 9781009371094
• ISBN: 978-1-009-37109-4
• Weight: 250 g
• Illustrations: 15 b/w illus. 7 maps, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten, Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ottoman Empire, First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I