Fezzes in the River
Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 March 2011
- ISBN 9780195393316
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 236x165x27 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 hts 0
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Short description:
A fascinating case study of a province of Alexandretta caught in mandate system of the League of Nations and Great Power Politics in the interwar period.
MoreLong description:
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.
Written with wonderful skill and understanding,Fezzes in the River is a dispassionate account of a complex, troubling, and little-known subject.
Table of Contents:
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
Notes
Bibliography
