The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire - (I B Tauris Handbooks) by Hans-Lukas Kieser & Khatchig Mouradian (Hardcover)

About the Book

With chronological and diachronic thematic chapters, this Handbook provides an overview of the key debates and approaches to the study of the Late Ottoman Empire, with an unprecedented focus on the formative role of mass violence in the period

Book Synopsis

Drawing on contributions from fifty established and emerging academics, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire explores the scholarship that has emerged in recent decades on the Late Ottoman period and its legacies.
Seven chronological sections, featuring thirty-four chapters and eight supplementary essays, guides the reader from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

The first two sections cover the Ottoman Empire before the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. Section III addresses diachronic topics from Arab and Kurdish nationalism to missionaries and Zionism. Sections IV and V examine the post-1908 period, marked by the Young Turks' rise (specifically the Committee of Union and Progress), the Great War, and mass violence. Section VI discusses the post-Great War treaty system and its lasting impact, while Section VII explores post-Ottoman realities entangled with the late Ottoman legacy.

The volume includes two bibliographies, a chronology of political events, and an incisive afterword on the state of the field. Surveying scholarship and its interdisciplinary dimensions, and highlighting mass violence as a formative force in the region's history, this handbook serves as a reference for researchers, diplomats, students, and general readers.

Review Quotes

"Hans Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian's Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire fills an important gap for the student and scholar of the Ottoman Empire from the late eighteenth century through the First World War, offering the latest critical scholarship on this seminal period, incorporating the history of violence, gender, and memory studies." --Marc David Baer, Professor, LSE, UK

About the Author

Hans-Lukas Kieser is Associate Professor in the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has been a guest professor at the University of Stanford, USA, the EHEES, France and the University of Michigan, USA.

Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and the Armenian and Georgian Specialist at the Library of Congress. He is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918.