The immediate post-war Middle East formed part of a Eurasia-wide arc of instabil…
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Regional Thematic Articles
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Post-war Societies (Middle East)
By Cyrus Schayegh
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Warfare 1914-1918 (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
By Mehmet Fatih Baş
When the Ottoman Empire entered the war, the potential Middle Eastern theater of…
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War Memory, Commemoration (Ottoman Empire/ Middle East)
By Kyle J. Anderson
Since 1914-1918 various practices of remembering World War I have coexisted and …
Encyclopedic Entries
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Arab Officers in the Ottoman Army
By Michael Provence
Perhaps 30 percent of the World War I Ottoman officer corps hailed from Arab reg…
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Fall of Baghdad
By Christoph Herzog
Baghdad was evacuated by the Ottoman military and administration and their Germa…
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Mesopotamia, British Mandate for
By Burcu Kurt
British mandate Mesopotamia marks the beginning of the formation of modern Iraq.…
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Mesopotamian Front
By Christoph Herzog
Ottoman Iraq was attacked by British-Indian troops in late autumn 1914. After ha…
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Trench Art
By Paul Cornish
"Trench Art" is a genre of folk art comprised of items created in wartime, or fr…
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Extra-European Theatres of War
By Michelle Moyd
The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…
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League of Nations
By Anita Ziegerhofer
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…
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Non-European Soldiers
By Richard Fogarty, Andrew Tait Jarboe
This article examines the use by Great Britain and France of colonial subjects f…
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The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences
By Alan Sharp
This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…
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Transportation and Logistics
By Ian M. Brown
The Great War witnessed mass armies battling with modern, quick-firing weapons s…
