Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire by Mostafa Minawi
English | December 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1503633160, 1503634043 | True EPUB | 326 pages | 27.3 MB
Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing social, political, and cultural currents between 1878 and the First World War. He narrates lives lived in these turbulent times-the joys and fears, triumphs and losses, pride and prejudices-while focusing on the complex dynamics of ethnicity and race in an increasingly Turco-centric imperial capital.