The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
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The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
The decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire Author: Alan Warwick Palmer Publisher: English View all editions and formats Summary: Since the seventeenth century, observers had been predicting the collapse of this so-called Sick Man of Europe, yet it survived all its rivals. As late as , the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents. Unlike the Romanovs, Habsburgs, or Hohenzollerns, the House of Osman, which had allied itself with the Kaiser, was still recognized as an imperial dynasty during the peace conference following World War I. The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a provocative view of the empire?
The narrative contains instances of violent revolt and bloody reprisals, such as the massacres of Armenians in , and other?
More generally, it emphasizes recurring problems: The book also highlights the special challenges of the early twentieth century, when railways and oilfields gave new importance to Ottoman lands in the Middle East. Events of the past few years have placed the problems that faced the last Sultans back on the world agenda.
Alan Palmer offers considerable insight into the historical roots of many contemporary problems: He also recounts the Ottoman Empire? By exploring that legacy over the past three centuries, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire examines a past whose effect on the present may go a long way toward explaining the future.
Alan Palmer writes the sort of history that dons did before? It is cool, rational, scholarly, literate.?? A scholarly, readable and balanced history.?? The Independent on Sunday?
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Simmering ethnic and religious tensions erupted into violence and large numbers of deserters turned to banditry and roamed the countryside. In Mesopotamia the battered but still intact Ottoman Sixth Army regrouped north of Mosul and awaited orders. The only Ottoman armies worthy of the name were those that Enver had sent to attack the Caucasus and northern Persia.
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Sharif Hussein ibn Ali was rewarded for his leadership of the Arab Revolt with international recognition of the Hejaz as an independent kingdom. To the east, the Armenians were given an independent state taking in much of eastern Anatolia, while the Kurds were granted an ill-defined autonomous region and promised a referendum on independence.
His brand of Turkish nationalism was very different from the pan-Turkic ideals of Enver Pasha. Kemal believed that the once-great Ottoman Empire had become a dead weight on the Turkish people, who now needed a homeland of their own. The greatest military threat to the Turkish nationalists came from the Greeks, whose claims to western Anatolia, eastern Thrace and Constantinople were reinforced by the large ethnic Greek populations in those areas.
The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire [Alan Palmer] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was ' an. Editorial Reviews. From Booklist. There was something rotten in the Sublime Porte, but as with most processes of political decay, pinpointing the exact cause of.
On 15 May Greek troops occupied the ancient port city of Smyrna modern-day Izmir. More Greek forces arrived in the following months, gradually extending their control deep into the west Anatolian countryside. Clashes with Turkish civilians dogged their movements and greatly increased nationalist sentiment.
Meanwhile, the Italians landed troops in south-western Anatolia to reinforce their claim on the area.