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

Year: 2012

Type: article

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.

Source: Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno)

Author: Michelle Tusan

Language: English

Topic: World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

OpenAlex ID: W2131741844

FWCI: 6.087

Cites: 235

Cited by: 60

Related to: 20