After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century, the political, economic, social, and international forces of which are detailed in this interesting and original study.

• Introduction


• 1: Revolution


• 2: Collapse on the Margins


• 3: Great War


• 4: Deportation


• 5: Empire Divided


• 6: Downfall and Repudiation


• Bibliography

Born in New York, Ryan Gingeras received his doctorate in history from the University of Toronto in 2006. He is the author of three books on the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, including Heir to the Empire: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (2015).