Lia Cooper’s Reviews > The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World > Status Update

this is a really interesting cross section of Syrian history--I'm finding it particularly interesting how it ties into a book I was reading earlier this year (Sleepwalkers: how europe went to war in 1814) regarding the 60 year build-up to WWI. Particularly the Ottomon Empire's attempt to contain European intervention following the Damascus event and the ways different colonial powers attempted to exert pressure