Historians are of course a product of historical circumstances, and I am no different. I conceived of, researched, and wrote this book in the shadow of the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Arab Spring and Gezi Park protests. I wanted to think about ..
Samuel Dolbee
Samuel Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His first book is Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2023). His research has appeared in American Historical Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Past & Present. He is the editor in chief of the Ottoman History Podcast.