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Book SynopsisThe long-lasting Ottoman Empire was a theatre of armed conflict and human displacement. Whereas military victories in the early modern period enabled its territorial expansion and internal consolidation, the later centuries were shaped by military defeat and domestic turmoil, setting hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of people in motion. Spanning from Europe to Asia, the book reassesses these movements. Rather than adopting a teleological approach to the study of the Ottoman defeat, it connects late Ottoman history to wider dynamics, extending or challenging existing concepts and narratives.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Table IX Notes on Contributors X 1 Introduction: Population Displacements and Multiple Mobilities in the Late Ottoman Empire Nicole Immig Part 1: Population Movements and Migrants as Assets 2 Demographic Engineering and the Unionist Legacy George Kalpadakis 3 Seeking a Homeland, Serving the Empire: Muslim Migrants from Montenegro and Their Integration within the Ottoman Bureaucracy (1870–1914) Denis Ljuljanović Part 2: Differentiating and Hierarchizing People on the Move 4 Muslims of Epirus, Muslims of Empire? The Cham Issue in Relation to Albanian, Greek and Turkish National Projects (1908–25) Renaud Dorlhiac 5 ‘Unreliable Muslims’ Out and ‘Loyal Subjects of the Tsar’ In?: Two Different Forms of Migration Envisaged by the Russian Authorities in the Southwestern Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia in WWI Ozan Arslan Part 3: Reinterpreting Population Displacements 6 The Ottoman Era in Yemen and Jewish Emigration (1881–1914) Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman 7 Flags and Blood: European Jews, Refugee Restrictions, and Rioting in 1929 Palestine Sarah Shields Part 4: Lives beyond Borders 8 Migrating Economic Identities in the Ottoman Empire: Regional Expressions of the Global Market in the Greek Banker’s Andreas Syngros Autobiography Ekaterini Brégianni 9 Mapping Europe with Love: Spaces and Conjunctions between Smyrna and Munich Simone Egger 10 Afterword: Transitions from a Transimperial to a Transnational Migration Society Stefan Rohdewald Index of Names
