Ryan Gingeras
Auteur de The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire
A propos de l'auteur
Ryan Gingeras is Associate Professor in the National Security Affairs Department in the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Œuvres de Ryan Gingeras
Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923 (Oxford Studies in Modern European… (2009) 26 exemplaires
Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922 (The Greater War) (2016) 26 exemplaires
Istanbul Confidential: Heroin, Espionage, and Politics in Cold War Turkey, 1945-1960 [journal article] 1 exemplaire
Can Turkey Assimilate Its Refugees? 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of Toronto (Ph.D.|History|2006)
University of California, San Diego (B.A.|History|2000) - Professions
- professor (history)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 112
- Popularité
- #174,306
- Évaluation
- 2.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 24
- Langues
- 2
Ryan Gingeras takes us through the complex events of 1918-1923, which involves a lot of back and forth as there were usually several different conflicts going on in parallel in different corners of what had been the empire. The Turkish state has long been determined to control what historians have to say about its origins (basically, you weren't allowed to go beyond Mustafa Kemal's own account of events) and has typically kept academics out of late Ottoman records because of sensitivities about the Armenian genocide; that has softened a little under Erdoğan, who identifies more with Ottoman history than with Kemal, but it's still problematic, and it means that most outside accounts have had to lean heavily on what was written by foreign occupiers or Armenian and Greek exiles. Gingeras tries to compensate for this built in bias and dig down into what Turks themselves thought about the situation through the memoirs of officers in the Ottoman and Nationalist armies, but there's still a lot of speculation involved.
It's difficult to come to any conclusions from this book, except that all parties — states and individual leaders — seem to come out of it equally badly. The Ottoman Empire was a mess, and every attempt to resolve that mess seems to have made things worse by overlooking the human effects of what was being done. It certainly undermines any idea we might have had of Mustafa Kemal as an enlightened reformer. He was a successful fighter and an opportunistic negotiator with foreign powers, who came home from Lausanne with treaty that legitimised ethnic cleansing (as "population exchange"). Not exactly an enlightened role model for the twentieth century.… (plus d'informations)