{"product_id":"britains-levantine-empire-1914-1923-daniel-joseph-macarthur-seal-9780192895769","title":"Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923","description":"\u003cem\u003eBritain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923\u003c\/em\u003e explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. Combining novel case studies and theoretical approaches, the volume reveals the extent of military control that Britain established and anticipated maintaining in the post-Ottoman world, before a series of confrontations with nationalist and socialist anti-imperialists forced a new division of the eastern Mediterranean, still visible in the political borders of the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923\u003c\/em\u003e tells this story through the eyes and ears of the British servicemen who built this empire, analysing the testimony of over 100 such military personnel sent to Alexandria, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, and the towns and islands between them, as they voyaged, made camp, and explored and patrolled the city streets. Whereas histories examining soldiers' experiences in the First World War have almost exclusively focused on their lives at the frontlines, this study provides a much needed in-depth history of soldiers' experience and impact on the urban hubs of the Eastern Mediterranean, where urban planning, nightlife and entertainment, policing, and security were transformed by the presence of so many men at arms and the imperialist interventions that accompanied them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192895761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192895769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.49w x 0.91d","brand":"Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46140823044351,"sku":"9780192895769","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc1a63fc-c3a9-4c5e-8a93-c8bfc64815bd.jpg?v=1726597131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/britains-levantine-empire-1914-1923-daniel-joseph-macarthur-seal-9780192895769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}