1st Edition
Dismantling the Ottoman Empire Britain, America and the Armenian question
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT WAR CHAPTER II: WAR, HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, AND PROPAGANDA (1914-17) CHAPTER III: AMERICA AT WAR AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE ARMENIAN QUESTION (1917-18) CHAPTER IV: NEW vs. OLD DIPLOMACY: A MANDATE PLAN (1919) CHAPTER V: "THE WILSON AWARD" AND ITS SPECTER AT LAUSANNE (1920-23) CONCLUSION
Biography
Nevzat Uyanık is an author and researcher on global political history of the last century, with a particular interest in the Near East.
Uyanik seeks to contextualize the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the interplay between US and British interests regarding the Armenians. The author outlines the changing attitudes of the US government about assuming a mandate over Armenia/Eastern Anatolia. Uyanik argues that the missionary lobby in the US was very influential in setting policy that would be favorable to the "Christian Peoples" of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, the US kept the Entente at arm’s length about declaring war on the Ottoman Empire, in part to protect missionaries. This provided an interesting perspective on the interplay between the British and the Americans. British realpolitik and US idealism clashed and, at times, agreed over the manner in which to shape the postwar Middle East. Grounded in British and US archival material, including the personal papers of numerous British and US officials, and buttressed by English and Turkish secondary sources, the work is well documented. This thought-provoking argument provides context for the Armenian issue in the post WWI context. Summing up: Highly recommended' J. Tallon, Lewis University, in CHOICE
