Mark Sykes & Francois Georges-Picot

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We Effed Up

Cody Reynolds & Theresa Daniels

54 episodes

8 months ago

On this humorous and informative show, a long-time history lover and a history rookie discuss pivotal moments in time when someone effed up, and unwittingly changed the course of history.

Cover art: The Course of Empire: Destruction, Thomas Cole

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On this humorous and informative show, a long-time history lover and a history rookie discuss pivotal moments in time when someone effed up, and unwittingly changed the course of history.

Cover art: The Course of Empire: Destruction, Thomas Cole

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

History

Society & Culture

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Mark Sykes & Francois Georges-Picot

We Effed Up

38 minutes 26 seconds

2 years ago

Mark Sykes & Francois Georges-Picot

On this episode, Theresa and Cody explore how the British and French created the several countries in the Middle East by literally drawing random lines on a map.

Podcast to recommend: The Civil War (http://civilwarpodcast.org/)

Sources

Barr, James. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France, and the Struggles That Shaped the Middle East. New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Berdine, Michael. Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism, and the Sykes-Picot Agreement. London, UK: I. B. Touris, 2018.
Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. London, UK: Macmillan, 2009.
McMeekin, Sean. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-23. New York City, NY: Penguin, 2016.

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