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The volume uses diverse methodologies-archival research, network analysis, microhistory, and translocal perspectives - to investigate the lived experiences of entrenched minorities.
List of contents
Introduction: Minority Forms of Resilience in the Post-Ottoman WorldPart 1: Shifting Grounds for Transient MinoritiesChapter 1Civilising Mission or Reproduction of the Ottoman Governance? Minorities and Greek Imperial Formation in the Occupied Territories of Trabzon and Smyrna (1916-1922)
Lukas Ts¿pts¿osChapter 2Catholic Entrenchment, Political Incertitude and Global Relief in Occupied Istanbul (1918-1923)
Gabr¿el John DoylePart 2: Survival Beyond the StateChapter 3Entrenchment of the Armenian Genocide: Memorialisation by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem as Diasporic Identity Politics
Arman KhachatryanChapter 4Enduring a Transition: Cretan Jews in Post-Ottoman Hania
Kater¿na Anagnostak¿Part 3: Resilience Within the Nation-StateChapter 5"Let's Found the Jewish Secondary School This Year": A Debate on Schooling and Language in Hellenising Salonika (1926-1928)
Defne ÖzözerChapter 6The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Minorities in South Serbia
Klara Volar¿cChapter 7Economic Nationalism and Non-Muslims in Early Republican Turkey: The Limitations of Exclusion
Sem¿h GökatalayEpilogueLanguage of Politics, Politics of Language
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About the author
Angelos Dalachanis is a Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Institute of Early Modern and Modern History in Paris. His research focuses on migration, labor and the Greek diaspora in the modern Eastern Mediterranean. He is the author of
The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962 (2017) and co-author of
Monde rêvé, monde collectionné: la Méditérannée orientale d'Antonis Benakis (1900-1931) (2025). He co-directs the journal
Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire, and co-leads two research projects at the Ecole française d'Athènes on post-Ottoman minorities (with Alexis Rappas) and object circulation (with Mercedes Volait).
Alexis Rappas is Associate Professor of History, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on the impact of European colonialism in post-Ottoman settings. He is the author of the Runciman award shortlisted book
Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict (2014). His subsequent research has focused on the entanglement between property and sovereignty in British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese and French Mandate Syria. He is in addition co-directing (with Angelos Dalachanis) an Ecole française d'Athènes five-year research project on minorities in the post-Ottoman Mediterranean.
