Acknowledgments

The research for this book was facilitated by the staff of the National Library of Turkey (Milli Kütüphane) and the Turkish Republican Archives (Cumhuriyet Arşivi) in Ankara; the British Library and National Archives in London; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the National Archives at College Park; and the Central Zionist Archives and the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Clemson University's library and its interlibrary loan service.

I am thankful to a number of colleagues and friends who commented on parts of the book, reviewed some chapters of it, or invited me to speak about sections of it, among them Şükrü Hanioğlu, Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet, Erik Zürcher, Mike Reynolds, Ryan Gingeras, Eugene Rogan, and Mustafa Aksakal.

I would like to thank the Institute of Turkish Studies for a sabbatical grant and Clemson University, its College of AAH, and the Department of History for a number of research grants that supported my research. I owe a special debt of gratitude to my colleague Billy Terry for his invaluable assistance in drawing the maps for this book. Last but not least, I would like to thank my editor Maria Marsh and all the fabulous support staff in Cambridge University Press.