{"product_id":"smyrnas-ashes-michelle-tusan-9780520289567","title":"Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East Volume 5","description":"Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms of the moral, humanitarian, and religious commitments of the British empire. \u003ci\u003eSmyrna's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e reevaluates how this story of the \"Eastern Question\" shaped the cultural politics of geography, war, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Tusan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520289560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520289567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Michelle Tusan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45331711787263,"sku":"9780520289567","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a45da11a-b61f-42ac-80e5-a6e925841253.jpg?v=1713970690","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smyrnas-ashes-michelle-tusan-9780520289567","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}