The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy(I B Tauris Handbooks)

Drawing on contributions from fifty established and emerging academics, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire explores the scholarship that has emerged in recent decades on the Late Ottoman period and its legacies. Seven chronological sections, featuring thirty-four chapters and eight supplementary essays, guides the reader from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The first two sections cover 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 examine the post-1908 period, marked by the Young Turks' rise (specifically the Committee of Union and Progress), the Great War, and mass violence. Section VI discusses the post-Great War treaty system and its lasting impact, while Section VII explores post-Ottoman realities entangled with the late Ottoman legacy. The volume includes two bibliographies, a chronology of political events, and an incisive afterword on the state of the field. Surveying scholarship and its interdisciplinary dimensions, and highlighting mass violence as a formative force in the region's history, this handbook serves as a reference for researchers, diplomats, students, and general readers.

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors 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 Abdülhamid 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 Select Bibliography Index

About the Author :
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 a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and the Armenian and Georgian Specialist at the Library of Congress. He is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918.