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Talaat Pasha : father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide /
The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Istanbul, 1915: A Revolutionist Heading an Empire; Married with a Cause; "On first impression, this is a lucid mind" (April 1915); Fraught but in Top Form: Toward a Communion in Crime; Relying on Germany; "The people are the garden, we are its gardener"; "Revolutionist Statesmanship," Imperially Biased: A Prototype; Bridging a Post-Ottoman Century; 2 Patriotic Rebellion and Networking against Sultan Abdulhamid II; From Edirne in European Turkey, 1870s; Exiled to Salonica; Conspiratory Organization in Salonica and Beyond.
- Talaat's Lead on the Road to the 1908 RevolutionUnder the Shadow of Dr. Nâzım and Dr. Bahaeddin Şakir; 3 A Komiteci and the Challenge of Parliamentarism (1908-11); The Ottoman Spring; Against Counterrevolution: Empowering the Central Committee; From Hidden to Semipublic Politics: Talaat as a Minister; Sobered, Disturbed, Depressed: A Crisis for Talaat and the Ottoman Future; A New Friend: Ziya Gökalp, Prophet of Messianist Turkism; 4 Alignment toward War and Dictatorial CUP Power (1911-14); CUP's Crises, Fall, and Radical Recalibration.
- War-Prone, Revanchist, High-Risk: Talaat Retrieves the CUP from Its NadirPutsch, January 1913; Revolutionists at the Reins of the Empire; Edirne 1913: The Baptism of Committee Rule; Truth Test: Challenged by the Armenian Question; Negotiating Reforms Backed by Europe; Strange Spring, 1914: Reform and Peace or War and Cataclysm?; Rûm Removal: A Cataclysmic Success; 5 Total-War Gamble, Domestic Demolition, Biased Nation Building; European War: "End and Revenge" of the Eastern Question?; For Turan's Sake, by German Will: Attack instead of Reform; Polarizing and Reframing the East.
- Embracing War, Concentrating Power: Toward Talaat's Dictatorial RuleDepressed by Defeat, Galvanized by Gallipoli; Exploit: "The Armenian Question no longer exists"; Mirroring and Managing Anti-Christian Forces in the East; Leading Assimilation, Plunder, Extermination, Nation Building; Victor, Noah, National Father: A Wide-Ranging Radiance; Talaat, Palestine, and Zionism; 6 Triumph and Fall, Lies and Resilience (1917-21 and After); Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha's "New Turkey"; Defiant Revolutionists, Troubled Wilhelminians; Faltering British Rule: A Matrix for Defiance.
- Imperialisms Face Utopia, Dystopia: Sykes-Picot, Balfour, Brest-LitovskFrom a Summer in Denial in Istanbul to Truth in Berlin-and Resignation; German Asylum: Keeping on the Struggle; Antiliberal International of Revolutionists; Death-and Afterlife-in Germany and Turkey; Talaat's Long, Strong Shadow; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.