Overview

Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a different narrative on the Great War, one in which the agency of individual figures was less neutered by heavy artillery. As with the historiography of the Western Front, which has been the focus of sustained inquiry since the mid-1960s, such assumptions about the Middle East have come under revision in the last two decades – a reflection of an emerging ‘global turn’ in the history of the First World War. The ‘sideshow’ theatres of the Great War – Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Pacific – have come under much greater scrutiny from historians. The fifteen chapters in this volume cover a broad range of perspectives on the First World War in the Middle East, from strategic planning issues wrestled with by statesmen through to the experience of religious communities trying to survive in war zones. The chapter authors look at their specific topics through a global lens, relating their areas of research to wider arguments on the history of the First World War.

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Author:   Robert Johnson (Oxford University, UK) ,  James Kitchen (Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9781138731332

ISBN 10:   1138731331
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   14 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Maps Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction – The Great War in the Middle East: The Clash of Empires and Global War Robert Johnson and James E. Kitchen Part One: Strategy 1 British Strategy and the Imperial Axis in the Middle East, 1914-18 Robert Johnson 2 Le front du Moyen-Orient: The Middle East in French Great War Strategy, 1914-18 Sneha Reddy 3 Greece’s Entry into the Great War: Attitudes and Dilemmas towards the Eastern Question Dimitrios Giannikopoulos 4 German Middle East Policy and the Expedition to Georgia, 1918 Peter Lieb 5 Dismantling Empires, Expanding Empires: The Turks and the Arabs in British Propaganda Sadia McEvoy Part Two: Experience 6 From Kut to Mosul: Lessons Learnt by the Indian Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-18 Kaushik Roy 7 Conflicting Attitudes Towards the Enemy: Anzac and Turkish Soldiers Before and After the Gallipoli Campaign Alev Karaduman 8 ‘A Hope So Transcendent’: The Arab Revolt in the Great War and T.E. Lawrence Himmet Umunç 9 The Third Battle of Gaza, October-November 1917: The Integration of Air, Land, and Maritime Firepower Paul Latawski 10 Fighting for Britain, the Yishuv, and Zionism: The Jewish Legion at War, 1917-21 James E. Kitchen Part Three: Context 11 The Great War, Egypt, and British Martial Law Reconsidered Mario M. Ruiz 12 Reactions to the Ottoman Jihad fatwa in the British Empire, 1914-18 John Slight 13 ‘Civilisation and Competence’: Displaying Ottoman War Paintings to their Allies Gizem Tongo 14 ‘Land of Sin and Sand and Sepsis!’ Imperial Fiction and the First World War in Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine Justin Fantauzzo 15 Between Rome and Jerusalem: Catholics Negotiating Empires and War in Palestine, 1850-1930 Roberto Mazza Afterword Rob Fletcher Index

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Robert Johnson is Director of the Changing Character of War Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, the University of Oxford, UK. James E. Kitchen is Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK.

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