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Losing Istanbul - Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Paperback)
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Losing Istanbul - Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Paperback)
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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. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles,
travelogues, personal letters, diaries, photos, and interviews,
Minawi shows how the loyalties of these imperialists were
questioned and their ethnic identification weaponized. As the once
diverse empire comes to an end, they are forced to give up their
home in the imperial capital. An alternative history of the last
four decades of the Ottoman Empire, Losing Istanbul frames global
pivotal events through the experiences of Arab-Ottoman imperial
loyalists who called Istanbul home, on the eve of a vanishing
imperial world order.
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