Michael A. Reynolds

Shattering Empires

The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908 1918

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of the causes and consequences of the rivalry and collapse of the great Ottoman and Russian empires.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9780521195539
• ISBN-10: 0521195535
• Artikelnr.: 32466672

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The high politics of anarchy and competition
2. Troubles in Anatolia: imperial insecurities and the transformation of borderland politics
3. Visions of vulnerability: the politics of Muslims, revolutionaries, and defectors
4. Out of the pan, into the fire: empires at war
5. Remastering Anatolia: rending nations, rending empires
6. Brest-Litovsk and the opening of the Caucasus
7. Forced to be free: the geopolitics of independence in the Transcaucasus
8. Racing against time
Epilogue.

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Introduction; 1. The high politics of anarchy and competition; 2. Troubles in Anatolia: imperial insecurities and the transformation of borderland politics; 3. Visions of vulnerability: the politics of Muslims, revolutionaries, and defectors; 4. Out of the pan, into the fire: empires at war; 5. Remastering Anatolia: rending nations, rending empires; 6. Brest-Litovsk and the opening of the Caucasus; 7. Forced to be free: the geopolitics of independence in the Transcaucasus; 8. Racing against time; Epilogue.

Rezensionen

"A first-class work of history ... an impressively clear and highly original account of the complex events in the Russian and Ottoman empires" - Financial Times Financial Times