Crisis and (Dis)Order: Armenian Revolutionaries and the Hamidian Regime in the Ottoman Empire, 1887-1896
Journal: Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago)
Year: 2018

This dissertation investigates two interrelated processes. The first is the development of official anti-Armenian policy and practice during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. Anti-Armenianism during this period has been studies mostly through the lens of the massacres of 1895-6, which are treated as a combination of spontaneous reactions of Ottoman Muslims to “restore” their superior position in the imperial ethno-confessional hierarchy. The dissertation focuses o