Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands - Making a Boundary, 18431914

This book examines the making of the present day Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish boundary, shedding new light on some of the most contentious issues of today.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Kurdish frontier in Ottoman-Qajar relations; 2. Laying the ground: the concert of Zagros; 3. The long journey of the first survey commission; 4. The borderland between the Crimean War and Berlin congress; 5. Sunnis for the sultan: the Ottoman occupation of northwestern Iran, 1905-12; 6. Boundary at last; Conclusion.

About the author

Sabri Ateş is an Assistant Professor of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He has published a book in Turkish entitled Tunalı Hilmi Bey: An Intellectual from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey (2009), as well as several articles in Comparative Studies of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Iranian Studies.

Summary

The story of the making of the present day Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish boundary, this book details how Russian, Ottoman, British and Iranian commissioners worked intermittently over seven decades to create a boundary in an ethnically, religiously and geographically diverse region. It sheds new light on some of the most contentious issues of the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Sabri Ate, Ate&, Sabri Ateos, Sabri Ates, Sabri (Southern Methodist University Ates, Sabri Ateş
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107033658
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03365-8
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Iran, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Middle Eastern history, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Türkiye / Turkey