Sean Lawrence- The Deutsche Bank and the Transformation of Ottoman Anatolia

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Sean Lawrence is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. He specializes in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Lawrence discusses the environmental transformation projects which took place in Anatolia in the early twentieth century, which were funded in large part by the German Deutsche Bank. He argues that these projects, rooted in a nostalgia for the previously Ottoman-controlled Balkan peninsula, aimed to reengineer the Anatolian geographic environment in order to make it more similar to that of the Balkan peninsula.