Tusan’s conclusions will engage scholars in a variety of fields for years to come.”-Nancy L. Smyrna’s Ashes demonstrates the long-standing influence of Middle Eastern issues on British self-identification. “An original and meticulously researched contribution to our understandings of British imperial, gender, and cultural history. She is currently teaching at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Tusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britain’s attempt to build a ‘Near East’ in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to today’s Middle East of nation-states.”-Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge A British historian by training, her teaching and scholarship broadly engage the relationship between geopolitics, culture, and human rights. “Traces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably enmeshed in imperial and cultural agendas and helped to contribute to the creation of the modern Middle East.”-Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights.”-Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis “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 humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean.

The Last Treaty by Michelle Tusan