Description: Turkey in the World War by Ahmed Emin, Ph. D. Formerly Professor of Statistics in Constantinople University This is the scarce 1930 First English Edition, with the Library stamp of the “Wehrpolitisches Institut der Universität Berlin” (Military Policy Institute at the University of Berlin): Front cover and spine Further images of this book are shown below Publisher and place of publication Dimensions in inches (to the nearest quarter-inch) New Haven: Yale University Press and London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Division of Economics and History 6½ inches wide x 9¾ inches tall Edition Length 1930 First Edition [xviii] + 310 pages Condition of covers Internal condition This volume is ex-Library (from the “Wehrpolitisches Institut der Universität Berlin”). Original black cloth blocked in dull gilt on the spine. The covers are scuffed and heavily rubbed, with extensive patchy discolouration, significant variation in colour and widespread surface scratching (particularly on the rear cover). The spine has faded and is very dull, with the patchy discolouration here resulting in a distinctly mottled appearance. There is also a discoloured patch near the atil from the removal of a small label. The spine ends and corners are bumped and slightly frayed. There are some indentations along the edges of the boards and a forward spine lean. This volume is ex-Library (from the “Wehrpolitisches Institut der Universität Berlin”). There are a few Library markings on the front pastedown (please see the final image below) and a Library stamp (shown above) and pencilled number on the Copyright Page, but no other markings that I can see. The text is generally clean throughout on noticeably tanned paper (particularly in the margins). The edge of the text block is not uniformly trimmed and is a little ragged in places. The edges are also dust-stained and lightly foxed. Dust-jacket present? Other comments No Formerly from the “Wehrpolitisches Institut der Universität Berlin”, this scarce 1930 First Edition is internally clean on tanned paper, but in heavily scuffed, scratched and rubbed covers, with extensive patchy discolouration (particularly affecting the faded spine). Illustrations, maps, etc Contents NONE : No illustrations are called for Please see below for details Post & shipping information Payment options The packed weight is approximately 1200 grams. Full shipping/postage information is provided in a panel at the end of this listing. Payment options : UK buyers: cheque (in GBP), debit card, credit card (Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal International buyers: credit card (Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal Full payment information is provided in a panel at the end of this listing. Turkey in the World War Contents PART I TURKEY BEFORE THE WORLD WAR Chapter I. A Long Career of War The Background of Conquest. The Machinery of Conquest. The Imperial Government. Economics and Religion. The Empire at Its Height. Chapter II. War Becomes a Losing Business The Price of Aggression. The Break-up of the War Machine. The Dynasty. Turkish Fatalism and the Non-Turk. The Meaning of Fatalism. Chapter III. The Effort to Survive Self-Criticism. Interest in Changes in the West. The Reformers in Possession. The "Sick Man" Renews His Strength. The Period of "Tanzimat," and the First Young Turks. The Western Powers Give Less Support. Chapter IV. Back to the Old Regime Abdul-Hamid and the War with Russia. The Tyrant and the Spy System. Constantinople the Favorite. Formation of the "Committee of Union and Progress." Foreign Intrigue ad the Non-Turks. German Organizers, Military and Economic. Macedonia, and the Revolution of 1908. Chapter V. Young Turk Contributions to National Survival Roseate Dreams. The Bitter Awakening. The Separatist Danger. Bulgarian Independence. Chaos and Counter-Revolution. The "Committee" Becomes the Despot. The "Great Cabinet." Peaceful Prospects and the Reality. Balkan Defeat a Gain. More Army Instructors from Germany. The Bagdad Railway. An Era off Good Will. PART II THE ACTUAL WAR PERIOD Chapter VI. How Turkey Entered the War Moderates and Extremists. Pan-Turanism vs. Pan-Islamism. The Alliance with Germany. Tricked into War. Entente Weakness and Inaction. Turkey To Side with the Victors. Gamblers and High Stakes. A German Admiral Settles the Matter Chapter VII. Resources and Equipment Divided Human Resources. Bad Health Conditions. Education at a Low Point. An Exploited Farming Class. The Inadequacy of Turkey's Railways. Turkey Poor in Fuel. Bad Roads and Primitive Transport. Paralysis of Sea Transport. Lack of Means of Communication. Industrial Limitations. Economic Deficits. Chapter VIII. War Government Parliament in Turkey. Local Government in Tutelage. Actual Conditions during the War. The Real Governing Forces. The "General Council." Kemal, or "Kara the Black." The "Outside Places." Chapter IX. The General Economic Policy during the War Militarism Gone Mad. War and Money in Turkey. The End of the Capitulations. "Economic Turkism." War-Time Production. Chapter X. The Food Question Feeding Constantinople. Government Control and Turkish Cooperatives. Kemal Made Food Dictator. One Kind of "Tradesmen's Union." The German System at Work. The "Outside Places" Also Suffer. A Drive for "War Agriculture." Maximum Bread Prices. A Food Commission and a Food Ministry. Chapter XI. War Trade Large Stocks to Start With. Import Scandals. The Trade in Shipping Permits. Turkey's Anti-Profiteering Commission. War-Time Companies. Chapter XII. Prices and Wages Paper Currency and Depreciation. Two Sets of Prices. More Price Troubles. Housing Problems. Salaries Withheld and Salaries Increased. Hardships and Efforts at Cooperative Relief. Failures of Water and Gas Supply. Chapter XIII. War Finances Falling Revenues and New Taxes. The Tax on Production. War Debts in Paper Money. The War Debt after the War. Taxing by Requisitions. Unifying the Currency. Chapter XIV. Reforms during the War Growing Freedom and Progress. German Help in Reform. Revising the Calendar. Encouraging the Fine Arts. Chapter XV. War and Religion The Holy War. The Appeal Fails. Pan-Islamism. German Policies Based on Mohammedan Solidarity. The New Nationalism. No Renewal of "The Blessed Period of Felicity." The End of Pan-Islam-ism. Chapter XVI. Turkish Nationalism "Old Turk" Ottomans and "Young Turk" Nationalists. The Non-Turks. Zia Goek Alp, a Chosen Leader. "The Turkish Hearth." Pan-Turanism and Pan-Turkism. Democracy vs. Imperialism. Chapter XVII. Racial Problems An Empire of Many Races. Religion Not the Trouble Maker. The Evils of Nationalism. The Arabs. The Kurds. The Greeks. The Jews. Chapter XVIII. The Armenians and the War A Scattered People. The Historical Background. The War: Enemies Within. Russian Armenians and Local Revolts. Deportation Is Decided Upon. The First Massacres. The Deportations. Massacres and Counter-Massacres. Chapter XIX. Education and the War Drafted Teachers. A New University and the First Coeducation. Difficulties of Language Reform. The Road to Germany. Turkey's Boy Scouts. Spreading Education in Other Ways. Chapter XX. The Emancipation of Women A "Collective Guardianship" of Women. Abdul-Hamid, Protector of Virtue. A Feminist Movement Led by a Man. War Work the Emancipator. Chapter XXI. War Morals The Effect of Privations. Bad Examples and Illicit Trading. Drinking and Gambling. War-Time Turkey and Prostitution. Home Morality Protected by Courts-Martial. Chapter XXII. War and Health The Handicap of Exhaustion. Mortality Figures for Constantinople. What the Army Suffered. The Medical Service and Army Losses. Chapter XXIII. Relief Work Little Support from the Government. The Treatment of Prisoners. Splendid Work by the Red Crescent. The Orphan Problem and Private Relief Work. The Society for Finding Employment for Women. Chapter XXIV. The End of the War Desertions and Brigandage at Wholesale. A Country "Saved by Desertion." The Press Is Allowed To Speak. The Fall of the War Government. PART III THE AFTER-EFFECTS OF THE WAR Chapter XXV. Between Life and Death The "Sick Man" Seemingly at His End. The Victors Support the Forces of Reaction. The Conduct of the Greeks. The ''National Pact." Mustapha Kemal Establishes the Angora Government. Chapter XXVI. The Social Effects of the Nationalist Movement Turkey's Enemies Are Her Salvation. A Country with Nothing Left To Lose. Mustapha Kemal Is Given His Opportunity. The Abolition of Sultanate and Khalifate. Attacking the Whole Front of Reaction. Unification. Chapter XXVII. The Economic Effects of the Nationalist Movement Lost Resources and the Loss of Skilled Labor. The First Railroad Built by Turkish Money. Helping the Turkish Farmer. Higher Taxes, but Public Safety. The Turk Becomes a Man of Business. Conclusion Appendix I Appendix II Sources Turkey in the World War Foreword The effects of the World War upon Turkey were exceptionally deep and far-reaching. The main reason for this was the great disproportion between the primitive equipment of Turkey and the huge effort called for by an unequal struggle on various distant fronts with efficiently equipped and powerful enemies. This disproportion was further increased by the policy of the war dictatorship, which reduced Turkey to a dependent position, and turned her into a mere source of supplies and men for Germany and the other Central Powers, instead of enabling her to use her meager resources for her own best good in her own particularly difficult position. The economic and social consequences of this—which ended in total collapse—as well as the ceaseless attempts to solve unlooked-for difficulties by a sort of system of trial and error, form an interesting chapter in the general history of the War. Unfortunately, the source materials for such a study are sadly lacking. To begin with, the changes can only to a limited extent be measured in a quantitative way. The gathering of statistics is the most neglected field of government activity in Turkey. Prior to 1927 no modern census had ever been taken; even the exact number of the inhabitants was unknown. The official estimates are based on the population registers. In addition to other technical defects these registers do not give anv estimate of the proportion of those not registered, a proportion especially great in Turkey's distant provinces. And as for other statistical material, it is mostly made up either of estimates of varying degrees of accuracy, or of fragments that apply only to limited periods and areas. Certain publications cover the military history of Turkey's part in the War. The reports of the Turkish general staff, and volumes by private military authors contain much accurate information on military matters. There are also many technical works and memoirs, written by leading German generals, by various other participants in the War, and by authorities on military affairs in general. The data for the political history of the War are less to be depended on. The documents in the archives have not been published, as they have been in the other defeated countries. What has been written by the former war leaders is necessarily biased, being published in self-defense. The statements made by the members of the war cabinets before the so-called "fifth division" of the Chamber of Deputies are of a similar character. And most of the private contributions to the political history of the War in Turkey are also more or less biased. Both military and political works speak incidentally of the social and economic effects of the War; but direct and special investigations into any such effects have not as yet been made. During the War military secrecy forbade it. After the War the chaotic conditions which then ruled gave rise to a great deal of bitter agitation against the misrule during the War; but the time was not yet ripe for any inquiry governed by the scientific attitude. The long series of books and pamphlets written by serious German economists during the War undoubtedly contain valuable material. They did not, however, dwell on the effects of the War, since they largely aimed at enlightening the German public upon those economic problems that might arise in Turkey after peace was signed. Furthermore, any thorough-going investigation of the economic and social effects of the War would be extremely hard in the case of Turkey. The different parts of the country vary so much that they cannot be reduced to any general average. The influences that were at work differed in effect in different places. In view of this, an investigation of a general character into the various social and economic problems created by the War cannot be expected to be complete in any sense. This present volume aims only at indicating the main lines taken by those problems, and the nature of the ever changing experiments that were made in the hope of coping with them. At the same time, if documents and statistics be few, one thing can at least be said. The author had opportunities to view the war situation from the inside. During the first period of the War, he was at first Assistant-Professor of Sociology and later Professor of Statistics in Constantinople University. In this capacity, he was in constant touch with the late Zia Goek Alp Bey, then Professor of Sociology, who has been held to be the cultural leader of the Turkish nationalist movement both before and during the War, and who was an influential member of the Committee of Union and Progress, the political dictatorship that was behind the war government. As a war correspondent, the author was able to get a first-hand view of the machinery by which the War was carried on; and, as an editor, it was possible for him closely to observe the economic and social conditions arising out of the War. In addition, he was, during the armistice, exiled to Malta by the British occupationary forces, and interned there for twenty months along with more than a hundred of those who had been most prominent in Turkey during the War—governors and cabinet members, senators, deputies, and generals. 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Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: New Haven and London
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Ex-Library
Author: Ahmed Emin
Publisher: Yale University Press and Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Pre
Year Printed: 1930
