Religion, ethnicity and contested nationhood in the former Ottoman space [electronic resource] / edited by Jorgen Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nielsen, Jørgen S.

Series:

Brill eBook titles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--Mehmed VI, 1918-1922.

Turkey.

Balkan Peninsula--History--1918-1945.

Balkan Peninsula.

Middle East--History--20th century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a growing interest in recent years in reviewing the continued impact of the Ottoman empire even long after its demise at the end of the First World War. The wars in former Yugoslavia, following hot on the civil war in Lebanon, were reminders that the settlements of 1918-22 were not final. While many of the successor states to the Ottoman empire, in east and west, had been built on forms of nationalist ideology and rhetoric opposed to the empire, a newer trend among historians has been to look at these histories as Ottoman provincial history. The present volume is an attempt to bring some of those histories from across the former Ottoman space together. They cover from parts of former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece to Lebanon, including Turkey itself, providing rich material for comparing regions which normally are not compared.

Contents:

Introduction / Jorgen S. Nielsen

The Young Turks in power: a comparative and critical perspective / Klas-Goran Karlsson

The Ottoman Empire between successors: thinking from 1821 to 1922 / Christine Philliou

The Non-Muslim tax farmers in the fiscal and economic system of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century / Svetla Ianeva

Conceptualizing difference during the Second Constitutional Period: new sources, old challenges / Kent F. Schull

An Ottoman against the constitution: The Maronites of Mount Lebanon and the question of representation in the Ottoman Parliament / Abdulrahim Abuhusayn

Late Ottoman state education / Michael Provence

The Art of being replaced: the last of the Cretan Muslims between the empire and the nation state / Elektra Kostopoulou

Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey: medieval Anatolian warlord or Kemalist language reformer? History, language politics and the celebration of the Language Festival in Karaman, Turkey, 1961-2008 / Sara Nur Yildiz

Ottoman Saida and problems of a Lebanese 'national' narrative / James A. Reilly

Conversion to Islam in Bulgarian historiography: an overview / Rossitsa Gradeva

The short history of Bulgaria for export / Evelina Kelbecheva

Recent developments in the historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to the Ottoman Empire and their Impact on history textbooks / Vera Katz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-36599-5

9786613365996

90-04-21657-X

OCLC:

817584099

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004216570 DOI