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"Set against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, Smyrna's Ashes is an important contribution to our understanding of how humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights." Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis "Tusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britain's attempt to build a 'Near East' in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to today's Middle East of nation-states." Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge "Traces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably enmeshed in imperial and cultural agendas and helped to contribute to the creation of the modern Middle East." Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University "An original and meticulously researched contribution to our understandings of British imperial, gender, and cultural history. Smyrna's Ashes demonstrates the long-standing influence of Middle Eastern issues on British self-identification. Tusan's conclusions will engage scholars in a variety of fields for years to come." Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas 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. Smyrna's Ashes 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. Michelle Tusan is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Berkeley Series in British Studies, 5

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. Smyrna's Ashes 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.

Women's employment in industrial trades was a highly contested issue
in Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century. Nowhere
was this more evident than in women's attempts to gain a foothold in
printing. This article explores the campaign that Victorian feminists
waged to enable women to enter the industrial workforce in the face of
increasing opposition by male workers and labor organizations. Trade
unions cast woman printers as a threat to the family wage; in response,
women founded their own printing organizations. Started in 1876,
the Women's Printing Society employed both working- and middle-class
women as printers. Unable to join male-run printing houses because
of the restrictions that the London Compositor Unions imposed, the
Society created a place for women in the industry by basing their
business on a system of shared profits that benefited both employees and
investors. These businesses issued one of the first sustainable challenges
to gendered hierarchies of work by reforming capitalist business practices
in order to provide new opportunities for women workers.

"Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's War with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East"--

Bashir Bashir, Amos Goldberg, and seventeen contributors have produced a powerful and incisive book that deserves the attention of everyone interested in central European history. Bashir and Goldberg's volume engages readers methodologically as well as intellectually, politically, ethically, and personally. It challenges us to think, write, and do things differently, to take risks, and to welcome the invigorating and disruptive presence of people in every aspect of our work.