Who Gets to be a People?: Reconfiguring the Ottoman Empire in the King-Crane Commission Report of 1919

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2008-01-28

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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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He will speak about the the King-Crane Commission, the 1919 investigation conducted by the United States into the circumstances and conditions in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Anatolia, in order to inform American policy with regard to the partitioning of the former Ottoman Empire. The commission was headed by Henry Churchill King, president of Oberlin College, and Charles R. Crane, a prominent Democratic party contributor.

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Ottoman Empire, King-Crane Commission, 1919 King-Crane Commission report, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Anatolia, Henry Churchill King, Charles R. Crane

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/33994

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2007-08 Mershon Center Speakers and Conferences