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The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order

Greece, Turkey and the End of WWI

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From 1919 to 1922, Greece and Turkey fought a brutal war for Anatolia that reconfigured international politics. This volume examines the international, transnational and economic dimensions of that conflict and the bitter peace that formally ended it.

Bringing together a diverse group of experts drawing on multiple archives and the latest scholarship, this volume analyses the complexities of peacemaking, the foundation of new nations through the violent 'unmixing' of peoples, the traumas of military mobilisation, and the remarkable revival of global capitalism on the ruins of old empires. Taken together, these essays will remind readers that the Great War did not end in 1919, and that the Greek-Turkish story is a critical element in the wider reshaping of twentieth-century international order.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Maps, Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction, Georgios Giannakopoulos, Joseph A. Maiolo and Gonda Van Steen (City University London and King's College London, UK)

Part I: The International Dimensions
1. Destroying the Paris Order: The Fire of Smyrna as a Global Turning Point, Volker Prott (University of Aston, UK)
2. This problem is too big for Greece': The Near East Relief Committee and the Refugee Crisis of 1922, Dimitris Kamouzis (Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, Greece)
3. Internationalism and Inter-imperiality in a Muscular Masculinist World: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Afterlives of the Macedonian Question, Jane Cowan (University of Sussex, UK)
4. Writing Revolutionary Ireland into the Greek-Turkish 1922, Darragh Gannon (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Part II: Forced Migration and Forced Immobilisation
5. 1919-22 as a “Hinge Moment” in the History of European Forced Migration, Antonio Ferrara (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della Ricerca, Italy)
6. The Pontus between Two Deportations: Extermination, Conversion and Resistance (1916-21), Zeynep Türkyilmaz (EUME/Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
7. Enforcing Immobility: The Physical Production of “Territorial Integrity” from Versailles to Lausanne, Laura Robson (Penn State University, USA)

Part III: Reconstituting Regional Capitalism
8. When Imperialists Joined the Nationalists against the West: Post-Imperial Business Networks and the Creation of National Economies in the Habsburg Post-Imperial Economic Space in the 1920s, Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest, Hungary)
9. Sewing Machines, Consumer Credit and Contested Property Ownership at the End of the Ottoman Empire, Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS London, UK)

Part IV: The Armenian Refugees and the Fall of Empires
10. Soviet Armenian Questions: 1922, Lausanne and the fate of Armenian Refugees, Jo Laycock (University of Manchester, UK)
11. Armenian Refugees in Greece after the Greek-Turkish War, Merih Erol (Özyegin University, Turkey)

Part V: Mobilising People, Ideas & Munitions for War
12. Empires, Nationalisms and Imperialisms in Anatolia during the long war 1914-1922, Nikos Sigalas (EHESS, France)
13. Greek-Orthodox Citizen Soldiers between Greek and Turkish Mobilizations, Charalambos Minasidis (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
14. Arms, Funds, and Men: Turkish Mobilization for War: 1919-22, Veysel Simsek (McGill University, Canada)

Part VI: Political Imaginaries, Revolutionary Aspirations, and Failed Projects
15. The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, Georgios Giannakopoulos and Cemil Aydin (City, University of London, UK, and University of North Carolina, USA)
16. Local Utopias and Self-governances in 1920s Anatolia between Global Dimension and Remembrance of former Revolts, Alexandre Toumarkine (EHESS, Paris, France)
17. Anticipating Sèvres: The League of Nations and the Settlement that Never Was, Haakon Ikonomou (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Bibliography

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 30 Oct 2025
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781350420953
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Series Histories of Internationalism
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Georgios Giannakopoulos

Georgios Giannakopoulos is Lecturer in Modern Hist…

Anthology Editor

Joseph A. Maiolo

Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International His…

Anthology Editor

Gonda Van Steen

Gonda Van Steen is Koraes Professor of Modern Gree…

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