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Age of Rogues

Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires

Alp Yenen editor Ramazan ztan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:7th Feb '23

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Studies the frontier cultures of revolution that shaped the making of the modern Middle East Uses a novel conceptual framework that charts the rise of transgressive politics in the frontiers of empires Includes a variety of biographical approaches to the key disruptive figures during the crisis of imperial and post-imperial regimes in the region Represents a connected geography of imperial collapse and nation-state formation in 12 case study chapters Engages with scholarship on intercommunal violence, revolutionary politics, and subaltern agency In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time. Rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers played central roles in the violent process of imperial disintegration as it unfolded in the frontiers of the Ottoman, Habsburg, Romanov and Qajar empires. This is a history of these transgressive actors from the late-19th century to the interwar years. This time was marked by similar, if not shared, revolutionary experiences and repertoires of contention across the connected geography of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus.

"In a stunning collection, the editors ztan and Yenen not only expertly steer an otherwise disparate set of authors writing on seemingly very different themes, historic trajectories, and locales, they also masterfully conjoin this volume to serve as one of our generation's best exemplars of scholarship on the late Ottoman Empire. A highly readable collection of cutting-edge research on agents of change along the fringes of both the Ottoman and larger modern world, this book must be considered an addition to the library of all serious scholars, and a candidate for their graduate seminars. I most enthusiastically recommend this invaluable new addition to the scholarship." -Isa Blumi, Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University

ISBN: 9781474462631

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424 pages