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100 1 _aMostafa Minawi
245 1 0 _aLosing Istanbul:
_bArab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
264 1 _aStanford:
_bStanford University Press,
_c2023
300 _axxi, 300 p.,
_bill., maps;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index.
505 0 _aFrom Meydan, Damascus to Tashwiqiyyeh, Istanbul -- A career in empire -- An Ottoman imperialist's global social space -- Coming to terms with "Arap" -- Racializing self, racializing other -- The beginning of the end -- Things fall apart -- The aftermath.
520 _a""Losing Istanbul" offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing social, political, and cultural currents between 1878 and the First World War. He narrates lives lived in these turbulent times--the joys and fears, triumphs and losses, pride and prejudices--while focusing on the complex dynamics of ethnicity and race in an increasingly Turco-centric imperial capital. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, travelogues, personal letters, diaries, photos, and interviews, Minawi shows how the loyalties of these imperialists were questioned and their ethnic identification weaponized. As the once diverse empire comes to an end, they are forced to give up their home in the imperial capital. An alternative history of the last four decades of the Ottoman Empire, "Losing Istanbul" frames global pivotal events through the experiences of Arab-Ottoman imperial loyalists who called Istanbul home, on the eve of a vanishing imperial world order"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aArabs
_zTurkey
_zIstanbul
_xHistory
650 0 _aEthnicity
_zTurkey
_zIstanbul
_xHistory
651 0 _aIstanbul (Turkey)
_xEthnic relations
_xHistory
651 0 _aTurkey
_xHistory
_y1878-1909
651 0 _aTurkey
_xHistory
_yMehmed V, 1909-1918
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