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Zusatztext ‘One of the most important essay collections in existence on the massviolence at the end of the Ottoman empire...a superb collection of thebest-established scholars of the Armenian genocide and some excellentyounger scholars who are clearly destined to have fine academicreputations. The major “selling point” of this volume is the qualityand depth of research at the meso- and micro-levels. In short, thisvolume is not just a sign of but a major contribution to the coming-ofageof the scholarship on the Armenian genocide and associated issues' Informationen zum Autor Hans-Lukas Kieser is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Margaret Lavinia Anderson is Professor Emerita of Modern History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Seyhan Bayraktar is Senior Lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Thomas Schmutz is a scholar based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Vorwort Leading experts assess the relationship between Turkish nationalism and the Armenian Genocide Zusammenfassung In the early part of the twentieth century! as Europe began its descent into the First World War! the Ottoman world - once the largest Empire in the Middle East - began to experience a revolution which would culminate in the new! secular Turkish state. Alongside this! in 1915! as part of an increasing nationalism! it enacted a genocide against its Armenian citizens. In this new study! Hans-Lukas Kieser marshals a dazzling array of scholars to re-evaluate the approach and legacy of the Young Turks - whose eradication of the Armenians from Asia Minor would have far-reaching consequences. Kieser argues that genocide led to today's crisis-ridden Middle East and set in place a rigid state system whose effects are still felt in Turkey today.Featuring new and groundbreaking work on the role of bureaucracy! the actors outside of Istanbul and re-centreing Armenian agency in the genocide! The End of the Ottomans is a vital new study of the Ottoman world! the Armenian Genocide and of the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction (Margaret Lavinia Anderson and Hans-Lukas Kieser) Part I – Biography and Genocide. A perpetuation of Young Turk pattern and practices 2. Mehmed Talaat: Demolitionist founder of post-Ottoman Turkey (Hans-Lukas Kieser)3. A Perpetrator, a Savior and an Enigma: Cemal Pasha, Arabs and Armenians (Ümit Kurt)4. Honour and Shame: The Diaries of a Unionist and the “Armenian Question” (Ozan Ozavci)5. Tahsin Uzer: Talaat's Man in the East (Hilmar Kaiser)6. Pro-active local perpetrators: Ahmed Faik Erner and Mehmet Yasin Sani Kutlug (Ümit Kurt)7. A Man for all Regions: Aintabli Abdulkadir and the Special Organization (Hilmar Kaiser)8. Zohrab and Vartkes: Reform-minded Ottoman Deputies. Intimates and Victims of the CUP (Raymond Kévorkian)9. Aram Manoukian, Armenian leader in Van (Khatchig Mouradian) Part II – Exploring genocide on the spot 10. The War before War at the Caucasus Front: A matrix for genocide (Candan Badem)11. The state, local actors and mass violence in the Bitlis province (Mehmet Polatel)12. From Aintab to Gaziantep: The Reconstitution of an Elite on the Ottoman Periphery (Ümit Kurt)13. Scenes from Angora, 1915: The Commander, the Bureaucrats, and Muslim Notables during the Armenian Genocide (Hilmar Kaiser)14. The Very Limit of our Endurance’: Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria during: Armenian Agency in Syria in World War I (Khatchig Mouradian)15. Afterword: Violence, ethics, historiography (Hamit Bozarslan)ChronologyIndex...
