Britain's Levantine empire, 1914-1923

by MacArthur-Seal, Daniel-Joseph

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Title Statements

Full title :Britain's Levantine empire, 1914-1923 / Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal.

Summary

"Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. Combining novel case studies and theoretical approaches, the volume reveals the extent of military control that Britain established and anticipated maintaining in the post-Ottoman world, before a series of confrontations with nationalist and socialist anti-imperialists forced a new division of the eastern Mediterranean, still visible in the political borders of the present day. Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 tells this story through the eyes and ears of the British servicemen who built this empire, analysing the testimony of over 100 such military personnel sent to Alexandria, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, and the towns and islands between them, as they voyaged, made camp, and explored and patrolled the city streets. Whereas histories examining soldiers' experiences in the First World War have almost exclusively focused on their lives at the frontlines, this study provides a much needed in-depth history of soldiers' experience and impact on the urban hubs of the Eastern Mediterranean, where urban planning, nightlife and entertainment, policing, and security were transformed by the presence of so many men at arms and the imperialist interventions that accompanied them"--Provided by publisher

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (287 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780192648877, 019264887X
oclc:on1260852972
LC Classification:DS63.04
Dewey Decimal:956/.02

Subjects

Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvern… Grande-Bretagne., Army Great Britain Great Britain -- Politics and governmen… Great Britain., Army Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Territoi… History Middle East Middle East -- History -- 1914-1923 Middle East -- Politics and government … Military occupation Moyen-Orient -- Histoire -- 1914-1923 Moyen-Orient -- Politique et gouverneme… Politics and government World War, 1914-1918 -- Occupied territ… World War, 1914-1918 / Middle East