Turks across empires: marketing Muslim identity in the Russian Ottoman borderlands, 1856 1914
completely changed the rules with the Great Revolution. Better fortunes prevailed afterward. Teague Jones changed his name and identity for over 60 years to hide from the Soviet spotlight, working for British manufacturing, making his way across Iran in a Model T Ford and sometimes on a camel, criss crossing the sun baked networks of the old Silk Road, searching for new imperial highways of trade and power. We learn of his significant artistic gifts as amateur painter and draughtsman, photographer and filmmaker. Ter Minassian caps the story with his final career move as a diplomatic and intelligence consul in New York City, coordinating some of the allied effort in World War II and manipulating American opinion in favour of British imperial interests in India. This last episode suggests that though he had changed his name, he likely remained either in or associated with the secret service all his working life, though these mysteries await the revelations of new records and intrigues.