An empire sent shuffling

The Ottoman Empire met its end in keeping with the times

FOR THE TLS, I’VE reviewed Ryan Gingeras’ The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire: 1918-1922, a thorough, thoughtful, unflashy exploration of how one of the world’s last major land powers was overthrown and replaced by a homogenous nation state:

And as much as they tried to deny it, and as much they tried to present themselves as a clean break from a failed…