Böcker av Michelle Tusan

"Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's War with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East"--

Explores how British female subjects themselves forged a wide range of new political identities through the pages of their press. This book reveals the important relationship between print culture and the gender politics that provided a vehicle for women's mobilization in the political culture of modern Britain.

The West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. This book re-evaluates how this story of the Eastern Question shaped the cultural politics of geography, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.