Falling Into Places
Falling Into Places
This chapter sets out to assess the effects of the militarization of the region’s cartography during the first world war. It calls into question the traditional assumption that the “Middle East” only became an effective category during the Second World War. It reconsiders the history of the creation of the Middle East Department in the Colonial Office and demonstrates that the carving of a new regional entity was one the determining features of the project of a "third Empire". It also demonstrate how maps became both technocratic tools for decision makers and vehicles for propaganda and justifications during the post-1918 peace settlements.
Keywords: First World War, Paris Peace Conference, T. E. Lawrence, cartographic propaganda, anthropology of diplomacy, Gallipoli, David Hogarth, Valentine Chirol, Alfred Thayer Mahan
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