NUR BILGE CRISS, Istanbul under Allied Occupation 1918–1923, Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999). Pp. 195. $62.00 cloth.

For once, the title of a book matches its contents. Criss sets out to describe the conditions of occupied Istanbul immediately upon the surrender of the Ottomans to the Allies at the end of World War I. Acknowledging the contribution of other scholars to the general history of the immediate post-war period, Criss declares her intention to trace the underground resistance movement to British and French occupation in Istanbul. To do so, she has …