Not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. He is the coeditor of the Ottoman Empire middle east section of the 191419 18 Online International encyclopedia of the First World War. If you have not use that as a resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. That 19141918 encyclopedia is spectacular with global contributors, many of whom you have seen on the stage today, and on the stage if you have been here before. Do check that out. Thank you for the work you have put into that. He is currently working on a monograph about the
Friends and we are in this great museum and with the exception of the chilly weather and we have an excuse to say this and to date, what i want to talk about in the auto empire and we understand this crucial moment to get a better grasp of it. We turn our attention to this experience. Its not easy to be the first speaker after the lunch break but ill try to make it interesting. For the ten long years between 1912 and 1922, through the period of crisis which was in conflict. In 1912 and 1913 and the First World War in 1914 and finally the turkish war in 1919, 1922. The empires in the capital room had millions of people dead wounded and captive. A lot believed they were the one on a much larger scale in the conflict step preceded and followed it. Its four years from october 1914 to october 1918. The hope of regaining the territories lost in the previous conflict is the most valuable but also the empires last promises in africa to the cold war against italy in 1911, 1912. More importantly
Ace . That should have sounded there is a question mark at the end of it in case it didnt. We are thrilled to have you here on site and thrilled to have you all join us either online or via tv, because we know that these conversations are essential to not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican of turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. Thes the coeditor of Ottoman Empire middle east 19 18 onlinee 1914 International Encyclopedia of the First World War. A you have not use that as resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. Encyclopedia is spectacular with global co
Instead, he describes a series of decisions made by heads of state that had a domino effect. This is about 50 minutes. Professor Sean Mcmeekin did his ph. D. At uc berkeley and he talked at many universities before beginning at professor of history of russian and eurasian studies at bard college in new york. Among his recent boox are the russian origins of the First World War, july 1914, and the berlin baghdad express, the Ottoman Empire and germanys bid for world power. His research languages include russian, turkish, german, and french. His talk today is the war of 1914, an avoidable catastrophe. Thank you for that kind introduction. Well see if i can get the clicker to work before we get going. There we are. Its true, i did one book with the german bid for world power in the title. I did another book called the russian origins of the First World War. Some people have been a bit confused by this. I blame the russians in one book and the germans in the other. [laughter] now, for which
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