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1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Introduction: Saydo's Argument ---- Chapter 1: Fezzes and Hats --- Chapter 2: The League Takes the Case --- Chapter 3: The League Decides --- Chapter 4: Transition to Independence --- Chapter 5: Independence --- Chapter 6: Registrations Begin --- Chapter 7: Martial Law ---- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This is a case study of a province of Alexandretta caught in the mandate system of the League of Nations and great power politics in the interwar period |
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Self-Determination of Peoples, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, it brought an urgent need: to define the collective "self" that was being promised a say in its own future. The new states that European Great Powers carved out of the multi lingual and multi religious Ottoman Empire were now expected to adhere to new forms of affiliation, definitions of the collective self that emphasized differences among people that had previously hardly mattered. When Turkey lay claim to the province of Alexandretta just across her border in the territory of France's mandate for Syria, she insisted that the area was "Turkish." The contest for the land pitted the new Republic of Turkey and her irredentist claims against the government of Syria that was engaging in its own efforts to construct a political community that conformed to European notions of nationalism. The League of Nations, called in to broker an agreement between the two contending parties consistent with the spirit of the new democratic impulse, found itself working against the backdrop of the crisis of European democracy in the late 1930s. Although global strategic concerns supplanted democratic ideology as French policy evolved, the new Politics of Identity had already been unleashed in the contest over territory. In the end, the League of Nations introduced a new kind of identity politics into the province that redefined belonging, transformed nationalism, and set in motion the process of dysfunctional democracy still plaguing the Middle East. -- Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Turks -- Ethnic identity
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Arabs -- Turkey -- Ethnic identity
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Turkey
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Administrative and political divisions
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Arabs -- Ethnic identity
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Diplomatic relations
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Ethnic relations
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Politics and government
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Turks -- Ethnic identity
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Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138848
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Turkey -- Administrative and political divisions -- History -- 20th century
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Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
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Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Europe.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138798
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Europe -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045686
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Europe
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Turkey
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199792467 |
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0199792461 |
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9780195393316 |
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0195393317 |
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