NUR BILGE CRISS, Istanbul under Allied Occupation 1918–1923, Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999). Pp. 195. $62.00 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-554
Author(s):  
Virginia H. Aksan
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Allied Occupation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Heritage Politics ◽  
Underground Resistance ◽  
Post War ◽  
Resistance Movement

For once, the title of a book matches its contents. Criss sets out to describe the conditions of occupied Istanbul immediately upon the surrender of the Ottomans to the Allies at the end of World War I. Acknowledging the contribution of other scholars to the general history of the immediate post-war period, Criss declares her intention to trace the underground resistance movement to British and French occupation in Istanbul. To do so, she has drawn on a tremendous range of secondary sources, English and Turkish, including memoirs, personal interviews, and documentary materials, public and private, from United States, British, French, and Turkish archives, although much archival material for the period is still inaccessible in Turkey. She is particularly to be commended for making information that is found exclusively in Turkish sources available to English-speaking readers.

Introduction

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. W. Evans
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
European Continent ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War

The formation of Czechoslovakia introduced a remarkable novelty into the heart of the European continent after World War I. It was an unexpected creation and a completely new state, whereas its neighbours as successors to the Habsburg Monarchy either carried historic names and connections (Austria, Hungary, Poland), or were reincarnations of existing sovereign realms (Yugoslavia), or both (Rumania). Moreover, Czechoslovakia seemed uniquely to embody the ideals of the post-war settlement, as a polity with strongly western, democratic, and participatory elements. Yet Czechoslovakia was a historical construct, deeply rooted in earlier developments. It constitutes classic terrain for a study of the ‘nationalist and fascist Europe’ which emerged after 1918. This book deals with the history of Czechoslovakia and discusses Czech nationalism, along with the Czechs' relationship with Slovaks and Germans, Britain's policy towards Czechoslovakia, and gender and citizenship in the first Czechoslovak Republic.

scholarly journals War novel: the history of development and typology of the genre

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Taras Hrosevych
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
War Novels ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Resistance Movement

The general regularities and main tendencies of the development of a war novel have been researched in the article, an attempt of its typology and periodization is realized, the most common genre models is identified. The novel about the Second World War as a leading epic genre, which develops the theme of war in literature, creatively synthesized all the experience gained by the writers and front-line soldiers, became a noticeable artistic phenomenon and widespread genre formation in Western European, American and Slavic writing. It is concluded that the aesthetic and ideological-thematic level of artistic modeling of war reality is localized in different national literatures unevenly and stipulated first of all for the historical and geopolitical scope of the involvement of warring countries in hostilities. For example, in German military romance, is the so-called "Remarkable" novel, as well as a novel with a marked anti-militaristic nature. The main plot of the French war novel is the resistance movement, while the Italian one is fascist domination and occupation actions in the Balkans. Instead, in Britain, which has escaped occupation, military creativity takes a rather modest place. American writing focuses on war as a social phenomenon, armed conflicts in Vietnam. The polivector artistic search, the richness of types and varieties of war novel (panoramic novel, lyric war novel, anti-fascist novel, soldier novel, war novel-education, war novel with documentary basis, etc.) demonstrates military novel prose of Eastern Slavs. In particular, in the development of the Ukrainian war novel, literary critics distinguish such branches as the war novel, the post-war novel of the first decade, the war novel prose of the "second wave" (etc. pol. 50's - 60's), war novel 70’s-80’s, as well as modern war novels.

The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies

2019 ◽  
pp. 582-603
Author(s):  
Stuart Blume
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eradication Programme ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Preventive Vaccination ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War

Organised efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases through mass vaccination began slowly. By World War I, although successes in saving soldiers’ lives offered encouragement, vaccination practices differed from country to country. In 1945, amid the rapid post-war spread of tuberculosis, preventive vaccination was deemed a necessary ‘technological fix’. During the Cold War period, technical cooperation coexisted with ideological rivalry. Although the Soviet Union and the United States supported vaccination for different reasons, they successfully cooperated on the WHO smallpox eradication programme beginning in 1965. Out of this grew the EPI, and disputes between supporters of ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ approaches emerged. In recent decades new vaccine production has become a major driver of market growth for the pharmaceutical industry. New forms of collaboration between public and private sectors (such as public-private partnerships) have been crafted, whilst the global introduction of new vaccines is supported by the GAVI Alliance. However, at a time of shrinking health care budgets the wisdom of disease eradication targets is contested, and parents everywhere are becoming more critical.

Book Reviews: Automobile. Les Cartes du désamour [Maps of Disenchantment], Shaping Transport Policy: Two Centuries of Struggle between the Public and Private Sector—A Comparative Perspective, Roads of Her Own; Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women's Road Narratives 1970–2000, Railways as an Innovative Regional Factor, Dal Fango al Vento. Gli Aviatori Italiani Dalle Origini Alla Grande Guerra [From the Mud to the Wind. Italian Pilots from the Origins to the Great War], Grenzflüge. Politische Symbolik der Luftfahrt vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Das Beispiel Aachen [Border Flights. Political Symbolism of Aviation before World War I: The Example of Aachen], Mythos U-Boot [Myth Submarine], Verkehrsgeschichte—Histoire des Transports [History of Transport], Le Maître de Poste et le Messager. Une Histoire du Transport Public en France au Temps du Cheval 1700–1800 [The Postmaster and the Messenger. A History of Public Transport in France in the Era of the Horse, 1700–1800], 150 años de Ferrocarril en Andalucía: Un Balance [150 Years of Railways in Andalusia: An Overall Perspective], Le Grand Dessein de Georges Pompidou [Georges Pompidou's Grand Design], Dynasty of Engineers. The Stevensons and the Bell Rock., Northern Lights. The Age of Scottish Lighthouses, La Culture équestre de l'Occident XVIe–XIXe siècle. L'ombre du Cheval. Tome Premier, Le Cheval Moteur [Western Horse Culture from the 16th–19th Centuries. The Shade of the Horse. Vol. 1: The Horse as Motor], Autodesign International. Marken, Modelle und Ihre Macher [Brands, Models and Their Makers]

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-157
Author(s):  
Fabrice Hamelin ◽  
Bruce E. Seely ◽  
Sasha Disko ◽  
Albert Churella ◽  
Massimo Moraglio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gendered Space ◽  
Grand Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Road Narratives

Playing the Market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Heinemann
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
British Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Market Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Financial Securities

At the dawn of World War I (WWI), the British stock market was the preserve of a wealthy elite, and most people in finance and politics agreed that it should stay this way. By the end of the century, Britain had more individual shareholders than trade union members. This book explores the financial, political, and cultural forces that brought about this dramatic change in British society. By capturing the voices and experiences of everyday investors, this study brings to life the history of Britain’s vibrant stock market culture: from the mass investment in war bonds during WWI, through the expansion of the financial press in the post-war decades, to the ‘popular capitalism’ of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party during the 1980s. Throughout the century, the stock market came to play an ever larger role in people’s lives through pension funds and life insurances. But as financial securities lost their age-old stigma of being either immoral or suitable only for the upper classes, the markets also became a popular pastime for millions of Britons who were seeking higher than average returns and a similar thrill of risk and reward to that of gambling on horses or the football pools. Playing the Market forcefully reminds us that gambling is not—as many financial professionals would have us believe—a parasitical element to the otherwise rational and prudent sphere of modern finance. Instead, it is one of its constituent features and explains why until this day, the stock market is either criticized or celebrated as a casino.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

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