A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hats and the 1906 San Francisco

and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake• crises abroad

Returning to the United States the following spring

Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after 1918

It was the result of this expedition—the proof of relativity

A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Hats and the 1906 San FranciscoDescription by Leila Tarazi Fawaz Hardcover The Great War transformed the Middle East, bringing to an end four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Arab lands while giving rise to the Middle East as we know it today. A century later, the experiences of ordinary men and women during those calamitous years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of the civilians and