History Faculty Publications History 2012 Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East Michelle Tusan University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
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[email protected]. Smyrna’s Ashes Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East Michelle Tusan Published in association with the University of California Press “Set against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, Smyrna’s Ashes is an important contribution to our understanding of how hu- manitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean.