Emergence of the Global Armenian in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
Journal: Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago)
Year: 2017

This dissertation traces the origin and evolution of the “global Armenian” in the Ottoman Empire focusing upon the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Particular attention is directed to the reign of Abdülhamid II (r. 1876 – 1909) and Armenian newspapers printed in Istanbul during the last decade of his reign and its immediate aftermath, after which time Armenians and the Armenian newspapers of Istanbul disappeared in the wake of the First World War. Armenian newspapers of the nineteenth a