Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East

Authors

Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

University of California Press

Publisher Location

Berkeley, CA

First page number:

1

Last page number:

268

Abstract

Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms of the moral, humanitarian, and religious commitments of the British empire. Smyrna’s Ashes reevaluates how this story of the “Eastern Question” shaped the cultural politics of geography, war, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.

Keywords

Armenia; Armenia (Republic); Britain; Bulgaria; Genocide; Geopolitics; Great Britain; History; Humanitarianism; Imperialism; Middle East; Near East; Nineteenth century; Ottoman Empire; Turkey; World War (1914-1918)

Disciplines

Cultural History | History | Other International and Area Studies | Political History | Political Science | Race and Ethnicity

Language

English

Comments

Series: GAIA Books

Creative Commons License

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Publisher Citation

Tusan, Michelle. (2012). Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East Location: Global, Area, and International Archive. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5626s1fw

Repository Citation

Tusan, M. (2012). Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East. 1-268. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/history_fac_articles/1