End of the Ottomans
Subtitle: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781788312417
Subjects: Nationalism; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923; Turkey, history; Europe, foreign relations; Turkey, foreign relations
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.