End of the Ottomans, The: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755635973 ISBN 13: 9780755635979

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2020

Synopsis

In the early part of the twentieth century, as Europe began its descent into the First World War, the Ottoman world – once the largest Empire in the Middle East – began to experience a revolution which would culminate in the new, secular Turkish state. Alongside this, in 1915, as part of an increasing nationalism, it enacted a genocide against its Armenian citizens. In this new study, Hans-Lukas Kieser marshals a dazzling array of scholars to re-evaluate the approach and legacy of the Young Turks – whose eradication of the Armenians from Asia Minor would have far-reaching consequences. Kieser argues that genocide led to today's crisis-ridden Middle East and set in place a rigid state system whose effects are still felt in Turkey today.Featuring new and groundbreaking work on the role of bureaucracy, the actors outside of Istanbul and re-centreing Armenian agency in the genocide, The End of the Ottomans is a vital new study of the Ottoman world, the Armenian Genocide and of the Middle East.

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About the Authors

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Margaret Lavinia Anderson is Professor Emerita of Modern History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Seyhan Bayraktar is Senior Lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Thomas Schmutz is a scholar based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755635973
• ISBN 13: 9780755635979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Kieser Hans-Lukas