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When the war came home : the Ottomans' Great War and the devastation of an empire
- Title
- When the war came home : the Ottomans' Great War and the devastation of an empire / Yiğit Akın.
- Author
- Akın, Yiğit, 1975-
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- x, 270 pages : map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed unprecedented hardships onto the shoulders of the Ottoman people: mass conscription, a state-controlled economy, widespread food shortages, and ethnic cleansing. By war's end, few aspects of Ottoman daily life remained untouched. When the War Came Home reveals the catastrophic impact of this global conflict on ordinary Ottomans. Drawing on a wide range of sources--from petitions, diaries, and newspapers to folk songs and religious texts--Yiğit Akın examines how Ottoman men and women experienced war on the home front as government authorities intervened ever more ruthlessly in their lives. The horrors of war brought home, paired with the empire's growing demands on its people, fundamentally reshaped interactions between Ottoman civilians, the military, and the state writ broadly. Ultimately, Akın argues that even as the empire lost the war on the battlefield, it was the destructiveness of the Ottoman state's wartime policies on the home front that led to the empire's disintegration"--Amazon.com
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-259) and index.
- Contents
- From the Balkan Wars to the Great War -- From the fields to the ranks -- Filling the ranks, emptying the homes -- Feeding the army, starving the people -- In the home : wives and mothers -- On the road : deportees and refugees.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4953
- ISBN
- 9781503603639
- 1503603636
- 9781503604902
- 150360490X
- LCCN
- 2017026478
- 14735576
- OCLC
- 989123804
- Author
- Akın, Yiğit, 1975- author.
- Title
- When the war came home : the Ottomans' Great War and the devastation of an empire / Yiğit Akın.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-259) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Akın, Yiğit, 1975- When the war came home. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604995 (DLC) 2017027781
- Other Standard Identifier
- 14735576
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4953