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Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire, 18501914

Mehmet Polatel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Publishing:28th Feb '25

£95.00

This title is due to be published on 28th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire, 18501914 cover

Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire traces the transformation of land disputes involving Armenians into the Armenian land question from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. Situating this event into its historical context marked by the rise of the central administrative state, encroachment of capitalism and the new territorial turn that changed the political significance of land ownership, this book argues that the Armenian land question was shaped by two conflicting trends: liberalisation and nationalisation of land.

The book also shows how mass violence transformed competitive struggles and socioeconomic life and structures on the one hand, and how these struggles strained intercommunal relations and blocked possibilities of normalisation on the other. Examining the actions and discourses of Armenian and Kurdish intellectuals, Muslim powerholders in the provinces, and Ottoman officials and the Istanbul elite along with the institutions, local and national, that sustained these groups, it populates a large blank space in our existing picture of the late Ottoman Empire.

ISBN: 9781399528603

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Weight: unknown

312 pages