The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone - Rilegato

Klein, Janet

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0804775702 ISBN 13: 9780804775700

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story of this militia, Klein explores the contradictory logic of how states incorporate groups they ultimately aim to suppress and how groups who seek autonomy from the state often attempt to do so through state channels.

In the end, Armenian revolutionaries were not suppressed and Kurdish leaders, whose authority the state sought to diminish, were empowered. The tribal militia left a lasting impact on the region and on state-society and Kurdish-Turkish relations. Putting a human face on Ottoman-Kurdish histories while also addressing issues of state-building, local power dynamics, violence, and dispossession, this book engages vividly in the study of the paradoxes inherent in modern statecraft.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Janet Klein is Associate Professor of History at The University of Akron.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0804775702
• ISBN 13: 9780804775700
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275