Conscripting breadwinner soldiers in the late Ottoman Empire family, law and war Kate Dannies

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dannies, Kate, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Draft--Middle East--History--20th century.

Draft.

Families of military personnel--Middle East--Economic conditions--20th century.

Families of military personnel.

Soldiers--Family relationships--Middle East--History--20th century.

Soldiers.

World War, 1914-1918--Middle East.

World War, 1914-1918.

Draft--History.

Soldiers--Family relationships.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

illustration

map

monochrome

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press, 2026.

Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2026]

Summary:

Explores how concerns over family subsistence, labour and care shaped Ottoman military reform and ultimately sealed the empire's fate during the First World War Examines how the sole breadwinner exemption shaped Ottoman military policy and the lived experience of World War I in the Ottoman Empire Places World War I in the 19th century context of Ottoman military reform and crisis Uses a sociolegal methodology to analyse the development of military law and mobilisation policy as a product of conflicts over care, labour and distribution of resources Argues that women's labour and family structure were integral to the military both institutionally and practically Based on a feminist and bottom-up reading of primary source materials in Ottoman Turkish as well as Arabic and English This book examines the gender and family dimensions of mobilisation for the First World War in the Ottoman Empire, situating the war in a long-nineteenth-century social history of Ottoman military reform for the first time. It focuses on the military legal concept of muinsizlik (sole breadwinning) and how this concept shaped Ottoman military policy - namely, how militarisation and mobilisation were supported by the exploitation of women's care and social reproductive labour, as well as the extraction of material and physical resources from Ottoman families. In exploring how war worked at the level of the body, the individual and the family, this book demonstrates how Ottoman society and war became imbricated through processes of militarisation that led to significant consequences during the First World War and its aftermath. Based on a gendered reading of Ottoman military and bureaucratic archives, it addresses a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East that has long awaited further study from a bottom-up perspective

Contents:

Frontmatter Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Usage Maps Introduction: Militarising Institutions and Mobilising Families in the Late Ottoman Empire 1. Family and the Making of Ottoman Military Law during the Long Nineteenth Century 2. Mobilising Breadwinners between the Crimean War and the Balkan Wars 3. Eliminating Breadwinner Exemptions between the Balkan Wars and World War I 4. Extraction, Survival and Ottoman Households during World War I 5. Soldier Subjectivity, Family and Desertion during World War I 6. Reconstructing Ottoman Society through Family at the End of Empire Conclusion: Family and Army between the Ottoman Empire and the Post-Ottoman Middle East Bibliography Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2026)

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781399563062

1399563068

9781399563079

1399563076

OCLC:

1596675300

Publisher Number:

CIPO000393729

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Restricted for use by site license