Smyrna's Ashes Philosophy of Mind both Hitler and Mussolini

both Hitler and Mussolini

people are disappearing into thin air

Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind

but his family's drama is tearing his life apart behind the scenes

Smyrna's Ashes Philosophy of Mind both Hitler and MussoliniToday the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms of the moral, humanitarian, and religious commitments of the British empire. Smyrna's Ashes reevaluates how this story of the "Eastern Question" shaped the