TY - BOOK AU - Tusan, Michelle, TI - Smyrna's ashes : : humanitarianism, genocide, and the birth of the middle east SN - 9780520289567 PY - 2012/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Great Britain KW - Genocide KW - Humanitarianism KW - Interfaith relations N2 - "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. This book re-evaluates how this story of the Eastern Question shaped the cultural politics of geography, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I."-- ER -