Russian Ottoman Borderlands

Author : Lucien J. Frary,Mara Kozelsky
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299298043

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Russian-Ottoman Borderlands by Lucien J. Frary,Mara Kozelsky Pdf

During the nineteenth century—as violence, population dislocations, and rebellions unfolded in the borderlands between the Russian and Ottoman Empires—European and Russian diplomats debated the “Eastern Question,” or, “What should be done about the Ottoman Empire?” Russian-Ottoman Borderlands brings together an international group of scholars to show that the Eastern Question was not just one but many questions that varied tremendously from one historical actor and moment to the next. The Eastern Question (or, from the Ottoman perspective, the Western Question) became the predominant subject of international affairs until the end of the First World War. Its legacy continues to resonate in the Balkans, the Black Sea region, and the Caucasus today. The contributors address ethnicity, religion, popular attitudes, violence, dislocation and mass migration, economic rivalry, and great-power diplomacy. Through a variety of fresh approaches, they examine the consequences of the Eastern Question in the lives of those peoples it most affected, the millions living in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and the borderlands in between.

Author : James H. Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192586339

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Turks Across Empires by James H. Meyer Pdf

Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan-Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akçura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish nationalism, but in the decade preceding the First World War they were known among bureaucrats, journalists and government officials in Russia and Europe as dangerous Muslim radicals. This volume traces the lives and undertakings of the pan-Turkists in the Russian and Ottoman empires, examining the ways in which these individuals formed a part of some of the most important developments to take place in the late imperial era. James H. Meyer draws upon a vast array of sources, including personal letters, Russian and Ottoman state archival documents, and published materials to recapture the trans-imperial worlds of the pan-Turkists. Through his exploration of the lives of Akçura, Gasprinskii and Agaoglu, Meyer analyzes the bigger changes taking place in the imperial capitals of Istanbul and St. Petersburg, as well as on the ground in central Russia, Crimea and the Caucasus. Turks Across Empires focuses especially upon three developments occurring in the final decades of empire: an explosion in human mobility across borders, the outbreak of a wave of revolutions in Russia and the Middle East, and the emergence of deeply politicized forms of religious and national identity. As these are also important characteristics of the post-Cold War era, argues Meyer, the events surrounding the pan-Turkists provide valuable lessons regarding the nature of present-day international and cross-cultural geopolitics.

Author : Omer Bartov,Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253006318

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Shatterzone of Empires by Omer Bartov,Eric D. Weitz Pdf

From the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically vast, multicultural region through a variety of methodological lenses, this volume offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist in a previous era and why the areas eventually descended into violence. An understanding of this region will help readers grasp the preconditions of interethnic coexistence and the causes of ethnic violence and war in many of the world's other borderlands both past and present.

Author : Michael A. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139494120

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Shattering Empires by Michael A. Reynolds Pdf

The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the story of the rivalry and collapse of two great empires. Overturning accounts that portray their clash as one of conflicting nationalisms, this pioneering study argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the twentieth century. It will appeal to those interested in Middle Eastern, Russian, and Eurasian history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and World War I.

Author : Krista A. Goff,Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501736148

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Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands by Krista A. Goff,Lewis H. Siegelbaum Pdf

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. They illustrate both the mutability and the durability of imperial belonging in Eurasian borderlands. Contributors to this volume pay attention to state authorities but also to the voices and experiences of teachers, linguists, humanitarian officials, refugees, deportees, soldiers, nomads, and those left behind. Through those voices the authors interrogate the mutual shaping of empire and nation, noting the persistence and frequency of coercive measures that imposed belonging or denied it to specific populations deemed inconvenient or incapable of fitting in. The collective conclusion that editors Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum provide is that nations must take ownership of their behaviors, irrespective of whether they emerged from disintegrating empires or enjoyed autonomy and power within them.

Author : Kemal H. Karpat,Robert W. Zens
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : UOM:39076002698897

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Ottoman Borderlands by Kemal H. Karpat,Robert W. Zens Pdf

Ottoman Borderlands, consisting of a number of articles by prominent scholars, aims to begin to fill a large gap in Ottoman studies, namely the study of the borderlands and their socially, ethnically, and religiously heterogeneous population. In both the frontier provinces and the semiautonomous borderlands, the central government used force, economic incentives, and the granting of titles to establish control over local rulers and, when possible, to integrate them into the system. However, despite the pressing power of the central government, the borderlands remained cultural-social units with their own identities and their own internal dynamics. While the core provinces were more Ottoman, Islamic, and Turkish-speaking, the borderlands were culturally, religiously, and linguistically more heterogeneous, as well as more politically autonomous. Originally published by the International Journal of Turkish Studies

Author : Sabri Ateş
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107245082

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Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands by Sabri Ateş Pdf

Using a plethora of hitherto unused and under-utilized sources from the Ottoman, British and Iranian archives, Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands traces seven decades of intermittent work by Russian, British, Ottoman and Iranian technical and diplomatic teams to turn an ill-defined and highly porous area into an internationally recognized boundary. By examining the process of boundary negotiation by the international commissioners and their interactions with the borderland peoples they encountered, the book tells the story of how the Muslim world's oldest borderland was transformed into a bordered land. It details how the borderland peoples, whose habitat straddled the frontier, responded to those processes as well as to the ideas and institutions that accompanied their implementation. It shows that the making of the boundary played a significant role in shaping Ottoman-Iranian relations and in the identity and citizenship choices of the borderland peoples.

Author : Gozde Yazici Corut
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3847113194

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Loyalty and Citizenship by Gozde Yazici Corut Pdf

Gozde Yazici Corut unfolds the details of everyday life and represents the local people as active agents - active, moreover, in relation both to the changing nature and effectiveness of the Ottoman state's assertion of territorial authority and also to the differences between policies and practices of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. Overall, she focuses on the end-of-empire border politics and the issue of Ottoman citizenship not only from the perspective of macro-level political developments and central state power but also in terms of the peripheral specificities of administration and the movements and subjecthood choices of people inhabiting the Russo-Ottoman borderland. The author presents a new type of multi-faceted account of borderland development in which ethno-religious considerations came to inform a somewhat messy production of sovereignty in the context of the modernizing transition between empire and nation-state.

Author : Dominik Gutmeyr
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 9783643507884

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Borderlands Orientalism or How the Savage Lost his Nobility by Dominik Gutmeyr Pdf

In Russia's cultural memory, the Caucasus is a potent point of reference, to which many emotions, images, and stereotypes are attached. The book gives a new reading of the development of Russia's perception of its borderlands and presents a complex picture of the encounter between the Russians and the indigenous population of the Caucasus. The study outlines the history of a region standing in between Russian reveries and Russian imperialism. (Series: Studies on South East Europe, Vol. 19) [Subject: History, Russian Studies, Ethnology]

Author : Andrei Cusco
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633861592

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A Contested Borderland by Andrei Cusco Pdf

Bessarabia?mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova?was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of ?symbolic inclusion,? but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era. ÿ

Author : Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211131

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Russia's Orient by Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini Pdf

From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Andrew Robarts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350074330

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Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region by Andrew Robarts Pdf

Drawing upon Ottoman, Russian, and Bulgarian archival sources, this book explores the nexus between the environment, epidemic disease, human mobility, and the centralizing initiatives of the Ottoman and Russian states in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As part of a broader discussion on Ottoman-Russian diplomacy, this book re-conceptualizes Ottoman-Russian relations in the Black Sea region in the 18th and 19th centuries. In response to significant increases in human mobility and the spread of epidemic diseases, Ottoman and Russian officials – at the imperial, provincial, and local levels – communicated about and coordinated their efforts to manage migratory movements and check the spread of disease in the Black Sea region. By focusing on the settlement of migrants and refugees along the peripheries of the Ottoman and Russian Empires and by foregrounding the role of local and municipal-level state authorities in the management of migration, Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region contributes to the developing field of provincial studies in Ottoman and Russian history. This is an important book for anyone interested in comparative imperial history, migration, diaspora formation and the spread of epidemic diseases.

Author : Alfred J. Rieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043091

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The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands by Alfred J. Rieber Pdf

A major new account of the Eurasian borderlands as 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts.

Author : Murat Yasar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1474498701

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The North Caucasus Borderland by Murat Yasar Pdf

Explores the role of the North Caucasus as a contested borderland between the Ottoman and Russian Empires in the 16th centuryThe wars and relationship between the Ottoman and Russian Empires have shaped the history of the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Historians who ask when and where the rivalry between these two empires began have turned their gaze to the Balkans or Eastern Europe to find an answer. But while the bigger wars and conflicts took place in the area between modern-day Ukraine and Turkey, the origin of the rivalry lies further east in the North Caucasus, which in the mid-16th century became the first borderland between the two imperial powers. This book analyses the hitherto poorly understood boundary region between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsardom of Muscovy from the Muscovites' annexation of the nearby Khanate of Astrakhan in 1556 to their expulsion from the region by the Ottomans and their allies in 1605. Drawing on a wide array of Ottoman and Muscovite primary sources, it addresses the story of imperial entanglements from multiple perspectives, analysing the actions of both empires and considering the motivations of the peoples caught in between. Murat Ya?ar is an associate professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Oswego. His research on the North Caucasus, with a focus on the process of its internationalisation and borderlandisation, has appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Acta Orientalia, Iran and the Caucasus and Turkish Historical Review.

Author : Michael A. Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : OCLC:965139885

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Shattering Empires by Michael A. Reynolds Pdf