The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire

Drawing on contributions from an international group of 50 established and emerging academics, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy is an in-depth exploration of the scholarship that has emerged in recent decades in the vibrant fields and subfields pertaining to the Late Ottoman period and its legacies. Seven roughly chronological sections, featuring 34 in-depth chapters and 8 supplementary short essays, guide the reader from the late 18th century to the early 21st century. The first two sections deal with 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 treat the post-1908 period marked by the emergence of the Young Turks as a critical force (more precisely by the predominant organization among the Young Turk opposition: the Committee of Union and Progress), the Great War, and mass violence. Section VI is on the post-Great War treaty system with its defining and lasting impact on the Middle East. And, finally, section VII addresses post-Ottoman realities that have remained entangled with the late Ottoman legacy. The volume is further enriched by two bibliographies (a general bibliography and one on gender in late-Ottoman and Turkish Studies), a chronology of late-Ottoman political events, and an incisive afterword on the state of the field. Surveying the state of the scholarship and its interdisciplinary dimensions, and foregrounding the formative role of mass violence in the history of the region, this handbook serves as a reference to researchers, diplomats, students, and the general reader.