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Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War(Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire)

Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War(Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire)


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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.



Table of Contents:
Note on Usage List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Introduction: Militarising Institutions and Mobilising Families in the Late Ottoman Empire Family and the Making of Ottoman Military Law during the Long Nineteenth Century Mobilising Breadwinners between the Crimean War and the Balkan Wars Eliminating Breadwinner Exemptions between the Balkan Wars and World War I Extraction, Survival and Ottoman Households during World War I Soldier Subjectivity, Family and Desertion during World War I 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

About the Author :
Kate Dannies is an Assistant Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her publications include an entry in Ute Daniel et al. (eds), International Encyclopedia of the First World War and articles in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association and International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Review :
Kate Dannies goes beyond the prominent personages and abstract ideologies that dominate the historiography of Ottoman military reform and the First World War to focus on what really mattered to everyday Ottoman soldiers. Through the family, she explores how the Ottoman government entered a new social contract with the men who fought its final wars and the women in their lives, tracing the entangled obligations of both state and citizen concerning matters of politics, gender, labor, and the law. Required reading for students of late Ottoman history and European military history alike


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781399563055
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 139956305X
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Family, Law and War


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