World War I in Mesopotamia: The British and the Ottomans in Iraq

by Nadia Atia

Overview

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600,000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were desperate for war news, and newspapers provided daily reports to keep the local population up-to-date with developments on the Western Front. This book presents the first English-language translations of hundreds of articles published during World War I in the newsapers of the Punjab region. They offer a lens into the anxieties and aspirations of Punjabis, a population that committed resources, food, labour as well as combatants to the British war effort. Amidst a steadily growing field of studies on World War I that examine the effects of the war on colonial populations, War News in India makes a unique and timely contribution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857739131
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/12/2015
Series:	Library of Middle East History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	971 KB

About the Author

Nadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She holds a PhD from the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Mesopotamia in the British Imagination, 1907-1914

Chapter 2: The Mesopotamian Campaign, 1914-1916

Chapter 3: The Siege of Kut and its Aftermath in Britain

Chapter 4: The Mesopotamian Campaign, 1916-1918

Chapter 5: From Armistice to Coronation, 1918-1921

Conclusion