Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 1st Edition Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal

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Product details:
• ISBN 10: 0192648888
• ISBN 13: 9780192648884
• Author: Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal

Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. Combining novel case studies and theoretical approaches, the volume reveals the extent of military control that Britain established and anticipated maintaining in the post-Ottoman world, before a series of confrontations with nationalist and socialist anti-imperialists forced a new division of the eastern Mediterranean, still visible in the political borders of the present day. Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 tells this story through the eyes and ears of the British servicemen who built this empire, analysing the testimony of over 100 such military personnel sent to Alexandria, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, and the towns and islands between them, as they voyaged, made camp, and explored and patrolled the city streets. Whereas histories examining soldiers’ experiences in the First World War have almost exclusively focused on their lives at the frontlines, this study provides a much needed in-depth history of soldiers’ experience and impact on the urban hubs of the Eastern Mediterranean, where urban planning, nightlife and entertainment, policing, and security were transformed by the presence of so many men at arms and the imperialist interventions that accompanied them.

Table contents:

1. Port to Port: Sea Voyaging and the Logistics of Empire

2. Exploring the Levantine City

3. City and Camp: Reordering the Levantine City

4. Day and Night: Leisure Routines and Regimes

5. Securing the Levantine Empire

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