History of the Modern Middle East - Casual Historian

History of the Modern Middle East - Casual Historian

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  • Episode 8: The Age of Liberation

    We backtrack the narrative again to cover the history of the Balkans from the late 18th century up to the 1870s.

    Bibliography

    The Rise of Nationalism in the Balkans, Wesley m. Gewehr

    History of the Balkans, Volume I: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Barbara Jelavich  

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  • Episode 7: The Tripolitanian War

    Bibliography

    Libya, John Wright

    Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya 1911-1912, Timothy W. Childs

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel

    The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1914, Feroz Ahmad

    The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923, Sean McMeekin

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  • Episode 6: Ottomans and Sanussis

    We look at the history of Libya between the end of the Qaramanli Dynasty in 1835 and the Tripolitanian War in 1911.

    Bibliography

    Libya, John Wright

    North Africa 1800-1900: A Survey from the Nile Valley to the Atlantic, Magali Morsy

    A History of Modern Libya, Dirk Vandewalle

    Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya 1911-1912, Timothy W. Childs

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  • Episode 5: Qaramanlis and Corsairs

    In this episode we backtrack the narrative two centuries to when the Qaramanli Dynasty came to power in Tripoli, and how they engaged in a campaign of piracy that eventually lead to their demise. 

    Bibliography

    Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850, Linda Colley

    Libya, John Wright

    North Africa 1800-1900: A Survey from the Nile Valley to the Atlantic, Magali Morsy

    A History of Modern Libya, Dirk Vandewalle

    Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776-Present, Michael B. Oren

    Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: Islam and the Founders, Denise A. Spellberg

    Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger

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  • Episode 4: Stumble and Struggle

    In this episode, the Committee of Union and Progress try to re-establish their authority over what is left of the Ottoman Empire, but they are having difficulty holding their own ranks together, all the while trying to tame the army. 

    Bibliography

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel

    The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1914, Feroz Ahmad

    The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Palmer

    A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, David Fromkin

    The Emergence of Modern Turkey: Third Edition, Bernard Lewis

    The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923, Sean McMeekin

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  • Episode 3: Coups and Counter Coups

    In this episode we look at the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, and the attempted counter Revolution of 1909. 

     

    Bibliography

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel

    The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923, Sean McMeekin

    The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics 1908-1914, by Feroz Ahmad

    The Emergence of Modern Turkey: Third Edition, by Bernard Lewis

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  • Episode 2: The Eve of Revolution

    The Young Turks and Sultan Abdul Hamid II prepare to face off for the fate of the Ottoman Empire. 

    Bibliography

    The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Third Edition, by Bernard Lewis

    A Peace to End All Peace, by David Fromkin

    Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by Michael B. Oren

    The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, by Alan Palmer

    The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923, by Sean McMeekin

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, Caroline Finkel

    Preparing for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908, by M. Sukru Hanioglu

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  • Episode 1: The Sick Man and His Medicine

    In this episode, we look at the history of the Ottoman Empire's decline from the reign of Selim III up to the 20th century, and the attempts at political and economic reform. 

    Bibliography

    Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?

    Peter Mansfield, A History of the Middle East

    Tamin Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

    Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson, A Concise History of the Middle East, Tenth Edition

    Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present

    Alan Palmer, The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

    Caroline Finkel, Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

     

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This is the story of the Modern Middle East, from the Young Turks to ISIS.