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

History and Legacy

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

History and Legacy

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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.

Table of Contents

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 and Post-Ottoman Periods with its Ruptures and Continuities-Yalçin Çakmak

Section VI. Treaties and their defining impact
Section introduction
Treaty of Lausanne: The Birth Certificate of Republican Turkey in a Post-Ottoman Middle East-Hans-Lukas Kieser
New States, New Borders, New Issues? The Kurds, 1918–38-Jordi Tejel
Emerging Turkey and the League of Nations: Nationalist Internationalism-Caroline Liebisch-Gümüs 'Azniv Efendi, where were you five years ago?': Nationalist Policies and the Precarious Situation of the Armenian Community in the Republic of Turkey-Ari Sekeryan
Intervention: International Law and European Financial Control, 1854–1954: A Post-Colonial
Perspective on Ottoman Public Debt-Ellinor Morack

Section VII. The Quest for Belonging in the Post-Ottoman Space
Section introduction
The Afterlife of Christian Missionary Education in Turkey: Teaching Liberal Internationalism Under Kemalism-Erik Sjoberg
Discarding the Ottoman and Asserting The National: Armenian Diasporic Church Architecture in 1930s Lebanon-Vahé Tachjian and Joseph Rustom
Writing Ottomans into Arab History: Late and Post-Ottoman Arab Historiographies of the Empire beyond the Neo-Ottomanist Trope-Aline Schlaepfer
Active Remembering and 'Neo Ottomanism': Commemoration of the Great War as invented tradition in the late Ottoman Empire and in Modern Turkey, 1909-2020-Selim Deringil
Political Contention and Protest Movements in the Post-Ottoman Turkey-Derya Özkaya
Dead States and Living Legacies: Experiments in Self-Rule from the Republic of Mount Ararat to Northeast Syria-Amy Austin Holmes
Intervention: The State of the Kurdish Question since the End of the Ottoman Empire-Cevat Dargin
Intervention: The Ottoman Archive in Istanbul-Candan Badem

Afterword:
Historiography's history-Hamit Bozarslan

Chronology of Late-Ottoman Political History
Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Jun 26 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 656
ISBN 9780755644490
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Series I B Tauris Handbooks
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Hans-Lukas Kieser

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a historian of the late Ottom…

Anthology Editor

Khatchig Mouradian

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