Yigit Akin on the Ottoman home front during World War One

January 1, 2019

Happy New Year one and all.

Turkey Book Talk episode #80 – Yigit Akin of Tulane University on “When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire” (Stanford University Press).

The book is a richly researched study on the consequences of the First World War on everyday social life across Ottoman territories as the empire collapsed.

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Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in Armenians, History, Interviews, Middle East, Minorities, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Podcast, Turkey, Turkish history
Tags: Anatolia, Books, interview, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Turkey Book Talk, Yigit Akin

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