The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire

Drawing on contributions from an international group of more than forty established and emerging academics, this Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East presents an in-depth exploration of the scholarship that has recently emerged in the vibrant fields and subfields on the religious and ethnic communities and nation-states it covers. Within the broad rubric of political history, it tackles religion, gender, identity, social conditions, environment and histories from below, from peripheries and from borderlands.Divided into six sections with six to eight chapters in each, the volume guides the reader chronologically through transformations shaped by the empire''s political elite and stakeholders large and small: from Abdulhamid''s rule, the Constitutional period and the Great War to unmet milestones when new treaties determined the post-Ottoman Middle East for a century to come. Throughout, thematic chapters revise a linear vision of history. These diachronic explorations trace the long arc of issues such as environment or religiously defined communities, as well as shadows cast by the seismic shifts under study like refugee crises, demographic engineering, transnational revolutionaries and borderlanders, (re)imaginings of the caliphate and of eschatological futures, and the legacies and afterlives of treaties.Surveying the state of the art of the scholarship its interdisciplinary dimensions and future directions, and foregrounding the formative role of mass violence in the history of the region, this handbook serves as a reference to researchers, diplomats, students, and the general reader.>

Préface
With chronological and diachronic thematic chapters, this Handbook provides an overview of the key debates and approaches to the study of the Late Ottoman Empire, with an unprecedented focus on the formative role of mass violence in the period

Auteur

Hans-Lukas Kieser is Associate Professor in the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has been a guest professor at the University of Stanford, USA, the EHEES, France and the University of Michigan, USA.

Khatchig Mouradian is Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (2021). Mouradian has published articles on concentration camps, unarmed resistance, the aftermath of mass violence, midwifery in the Middle East, and approaches to teaching history. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on late-Ottoman history, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review. Mouradian has taught courses on imperialism, mass violence, urban space and conflict in the Middle East, the aftermaths of war and mass violence, and human rights at Worcester State University, USA, Clark University, USA, Stockton University, USA, Rutgers University, USA, and California State University Fresno, USA.

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Drawing on contributions from an international group of 50 established and emerging academics, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy is an in-depth exploration of the scholarship that has emerged in recent decades in the vibrant fields and subfields pertaining to the Late Ottoman period and its legacies. Seven roughly chronological sections, featuring 34 in-depth chapters and 8 supplementary short essays, guide the reader from the late 18th century to the early 21st century.

The first two sections deal with the Ottoman Empire before the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. Section III addresses diachronic topics from Arab and Kurdish nationalism to missionaries and Zionism. Sections IV and V treat the post-1908 period marked by the emergence of the Young Turks as a critical force (more precisely by the predominant organization among the Young Turk opposition: the Committee of Union and Progress), the Great War, and mass violence. Section VI is on the post-Great War treaty system with its defining and lasting impact on the Middle East. And, finally, section VII addresses post-Ottoman realities that have remained entangled with the late Ottoman legacy. The volume is further enriched by two bibliographies (a general bibliography and one on gender in late-Ottoman and Turkish Studies), a chronology of late-Ottoman political events, and an incisive afterword on the state of the field.

Surveying the state of the scholarship and its interdisciplinary dimensions, and foregrounding the formative role of mass violence in the history of the region, this handbook serves as a reference to researchers, diplomats, students, and the general reader.

Contenu

Editors' Introduction-Hans Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian Section I. Late-Ottoman Coexistence: Reforms and Transformations in a Premodern Empire Section introduction Reform in the Ottoman Empire: Reform of the Ottoman Empire?-Marc Aymes The Rum in the Late Ottoman Empire-Merih Erol Armenians in a Plural-Late Ottoman Society-Varak Ketsemanian Ottoman Jews During the Last Ottoman Century-Julia P. Cohen The Muhajir: Muslim Displacement in the Last Ottoman Century-Candan Badem Intervention: Late Ottoman Environmental History: State of the Field (or State of the Swamp)-Samuel Dolbee Section II. Crises, Violence and Revolutionism Section introduction From the Ottoman to the Balkan: The Rise of the Nation-State's Modernity in Southeastern Europe-Dimitris Stamatopoulos Armed Forces under the Primacy of Politics: The Ottoman Army in the 19th Century-Elke Hartmann Sultan Abdulhamid II: From Chaos to Autocracy-Edhem Eldem Varieties of Regional Mass Violence-Umit Kurt and Owen Miller New approaches to the Hamidian Massacres, 1894-1897-Jelle Verheij and Owen Miller Intervention: The gradual disappearance of slavery in the late-Ottoman Empire-Hayri Göksin Özkoray Section III. Nationalism, Transnational Actors, and International Relations Section introduction Genesis and Trajectory of Kurdish Nationalism towards the End of the Ottoman Empire-Metin Atmaca The Arab National Question at the End of the Ottoman Empire and its Afterlives-Seda Altug Palestine and Zionism During the Period of Abdülhamid II and the Young Turks-Louis Fishman Missionaries in the Late Ottoman Empire: A 'Golden Age'?-Chantal Verdeil Intervention: Emigration from the Late Ottoman Empire: State of the Field-Nora Lessersohn Section IV. The Constitutional Era: From the Ottoman Spring to Party Dictatorship Section introduction The 1908 Young Turk Revolution: Enthusiasm and Realities-Dikran Kaligian Particularism vs. Universalism: Ottomanism and Constitutionalism During the Second Constitutional Period-Banu Turnaoglu From parliamentarism to party-state with 'Special Organisation': The Committee of Union and Progress, 1908-1918-Erdal Kaynar Intra- and Inter-Communal Relationships in Palestine During the Last Years of Ottoman Rule, 1908-1917-Yuval Ben-Bassat Race as Culture: The Constructions of Race in the Formative Turkish Nationalism, 1911-1916-Umit Kurt and Dogan Gürpinar Intervention: Turkish Women's History in early 20 th Century: An Overview of the Historiography-Elife Biçer-Deveci Bibliography: Gender in Turkish History Section V. Wars and Genocide Section introduction The Balkan Wars, World War I, and Ottoman Society-Yigit Akin The Armenian Genocide: An Overview-Khatchig Mouradian Assyrians and Pontic Greeks: Issues of Genocide-David Gaunt Dispossession of Christians in Asia Minor, 1914-1923 -Mehmet Polatel The Anatolian Wars and commander in chief Gazi Mustafa Kemal-Ahmet Demirel Intervention: Perception and Politics of the Kizilbash-Alevi in the Late …