Review of The end of the Ottoman Empire and the forging of the modern Middle East : a short history with documents, by Martin Bunton and Andrew Wender
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| Název: | Review of The end of the Ottoman Empire and the forging of the modern Middle East : a short history with documents, by Martin Bunton and Andrew Wender |
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| Autoři: | Blumi, Isa |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM) 2025 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Electronic Resource |
| Abstrakt: | Using 34 wisely selected documents to buttress a sweeping account of the origins of the modern Middle East, authors Bunton and Wender (both, University of Victoria, Canada) offer readers invaluable background information to an otherwise complex historical process. Resourcing material that spans critical moments from the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's collapse to the early 20th century, this short book more than adequately serves the purpose of providing readers with a background to understand more recent events in the region. Critically distinctive of past works that aimed similarly to explain the modern Middle East, this volume helpfully guides readers around the debilitating assertions of a predetermined rise of Europe at the expense of the region's peoples. Indeed, the well-documented examples of Ottoman decision-makers contributing to the modern history of the region reinforce the underlying lesson young students hopefully will take away from this well-crafted survey. With the Ottoman Empire and its ethnically diverse leadership guiding the Middle East toward WW I, the resulting calamities that initiated the modern era for the region and the larger world prove more complex. As such, the book provides better starting points to teach world history afresh. |
| Témata: | Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Imperialism, European Modernism, Historiography, History, Historia, Article, book review, info:eu-repo/semantics/review, text |
| URL: | ChoiceReviews, 0009-4978, 2025, 63:4, s. 1229-1230 |
| Dostupnost: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Poznámka: | English |
| Other Numbers: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:su-246774 0000-0003-3591-741x 1541896478 |
| Přispívající zdroj: | UPPSALA UNIV LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsoai.on1541896478 |
| Databáze: | OAIster |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Using 34 wisely selected documents to buttress a sweeping account of the origins of the modern Middle East, authors Bunton and Wender (both, University of Victoria, Canada) offer readers invaluable background information to an otherwise complex historical process. Resourcing material that spans critical moments from the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's collapse to the early 20th century, this short book more than adequately serves the purpose of providing readers with a background to understand more recent events in the region. Critically distinctive of past works that aimed similarly to explain the modern Middle East, this volume helpfully guides readers around the debilitating assertions of a predetermined rise of Europe at the expense of the region's peoples. Indeed, the well-documented examples of Ottoman decision-makers contributing to the modern history of the region reinforce the underlying lesson young students hopefully will take away from this well-crafted survey. With the Ottoman Empire and its ethnically diverse leadership guiding the Middle East toward WW I, the resulting calamities that initiated the modern era for the region and the larger world prove more complex. As such, the book provides better starting points to teach world history afresh. |
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