End of the Ottoman Empire and the Forging of the Modern Middle East

Martin Bunton is Professor of History, University of Victoria.Andrew Wender is Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of History and Political Science, University of Victoria.

"The internal dynamics of the modern Middle East can only be comprehended by a full understanding of its Ottoman past. Despite this fact, the starting point of a great majority of the general works on the subject is the Sykes-Picot agreement with a few random references to the Ottoman dissolution. . . . The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Forging of the Modern Middle East is an excellent attempt to remedy this shortcoming in the scholarship. This informative, analytical, and limpid study weaves a detailed tale of the emergence of the new Middle East by situating it within a long durée of imperial and post-imperial structures."—M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Princeton University