The I.B. Tauris handbook of the late Ottoman Empire : history and legacy / edited by vHans-Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kieser, Hans-Lukas, editor.

Mouradian, Khatchig, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Turkey--History.

Minorities.

Turkey--History.

Turkey.

Turkey--Politics and government.

Turkey--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, [2025]

Summary:

"Drawing on contributions from an international group of fifty 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 thirty four in-depth chapters and eight supplementary short essays, guide the reader from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty- first 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"-- Bloomsbury Collections.

Contents:

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 Phillips Cohen

The muhajir : Muslim displacement in the last Ottoman century / Candan Badem

Late Ottoman Environmental History : State of the Field (or State of the Swamp)

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 nineteenth century / Elke Hartmann

Sultan Abdülhamid II : from chaos to autocracy / Edhem Eldem

Varieties of regional mass violence / Ümit Kurt and Owen Miller

New approaches to the Hamidian massacres, 1894–7 / Jelle Verheij and Owen Miller

The Gradual Disappearance of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire

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

Emigration from the Late Ottoman Empire : State of the Field

The 1908 Young Turk Revolution : enthusiasm and realities / Dikran M. Kaligian

Particularism vs universalism : Ottomanism and constitutionalism during the Second Constitutional Period / Banu Turnaoglu Açan

From parliamentarism to party-state with “Special Organization” : the Committee of Union and Progress, 1908–18 / Erdal Kaynar

Intra- and inter-communal relationships in Palestine during the last years of Ottoman rule, 1908–17 / Yuval Ben-Bassat

Race as culture : the constructions of race in the formative Turkish nationalism (1911–16) / Ümit Kurt and Dogan Gürpinar

Turkish Women’s History in the Early Twentieth Century : An Overview of the Historiography

The Balkan Wars, the First World War, 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, 1914–23 / Mehmet Polatel

Wars in Anatolia and Commander-in-Chief Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha / Ahmet Demirel

Perception and Politics of the Kizilbash-Alevi in the Late and Post-Ottoman Periods with its Ruptures and Continuities

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 / Carolin 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

International Law and European Financial Control, 1854–1954 : A Postcolonial Perspective on Ottoman Public Debt

The afterlife of Christian missionary education in Turkey : teaching liberal internationalism under Kemalism / Erik Sjöberg

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 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

The state of the Kurdish Question since the End of the Ottoman Empire,

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed December 29, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: I.B. Tauris handbook of the late Ottoman Empire

ISBN:

9780755644483

0755644484

9780755644490

0755644492

9780755644506

0755644506

OCLC:

1520505597

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