The Ottoman mobilization of manpower in the First World War
Subtitle: between voluntarism and resistance
By: by Mehmet Beşikçi
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 52
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789004225206; 9789004235298
Subjects: Politics and government; World War, 1914-1918; Turkey. Ordu; Mobilization; Turkey; Manpower; Authoritarianism; Muslim Participation; Nationalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Organized spontaneity : the call to arms in the Ottoman public sphere on the eve of the war; title: Conscription under total war conditions; title: Volunteerism as a relationship of power : volunteers in the Ottoman Army; title: Young boys into soldiers, the home front into barracks : attempts at permanent mobilization through paramilitary youth organizations; title: The limits of Ottoman manpower mobilization : the problem of desertion and attempts to remobilize.