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The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the
late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian Genocide Talaat
Pasha (1874-1921) led the Young Turks' single-party regime in the
Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably a founding father
of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian
Genocide, which set the stage for a century that would witness
political terror and ethnic cleansing on a scale never imagined.
Here is the first biography in English of the revolutionary figure
who not only prepared the way for Ataturk and the founding of the
republic in 1923, but who shaped the modern world as well. In this
explosive book, Hans-Lukas Kieser provides a mesmerizing portrait
of the shrewd and merciless politician who maintained power through
a potent blend of Islamic-Turkish nationalism and a readiness to
employ violent "solutions."
The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the
late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian Genocide Talaat
Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman
Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern
Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian Genocide, which
would result in the systematic extermination of more than a million
people, and which set the stage for a century that would witness
atrocities on a scale never imagined. Here is the first biography
in English of the revolutionary figure who not only prepared the
way for Ataturk and the founding of the republic in 1923, but who
shaped the modern world as well. In this explosive book, Hans-Lukas
Kieser provides a mesmerizing portrait of a man who maintained
power through a potent blend of the new Turkish ethno-nationalism,
the political Islam of former Sultan Abdulhamid II, and a readiness
to employ radical "solutions" and violence. From Talaat's role in
the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to his exile from Turkey and
assassination--a sensation in Weimar Germany-Kieser restores the
Ottoman drama to the heart of world events. He shows how Talaat
wielded far more power than previously realized, making him the de
facto ruler of the empire. He brings wartime Istanbul vividly to
life as a thriving diplomatic hub, and reveals how Talaat's
cataclysmic actions would reverberate across the twentieth century.
In this major work of scholarship, Kieser tells the story of the
brilliant and merciless politician who stood at the twilight of
empire and the dawn of the age of genocide.
This book addresses the conflicts, myths, and memories that grew
out of the Great War in Ottoman Turkey, and their legacies in
society and politics. It is the third volume in a series dedicated
to the combined analysis of the Ottoman Great War and the Armenian
Genocide. In Australia and New Zealand, and even more in the
post-Ottoman Middle East, the memory of the First World War still
has an immediacy that it has long lost in Europe. For the
post-Ottoman regions, the first of the two World Wars, which ended
Ottoman rule, was the formative experience. This volume analyses
this complex configuration: why these entanglements became
possible; how shared or even contradictory memories have been
constructed over the past hundred years, and how differing
historiographies have developed. Remembering the Great War in the
Middle East reaches towards a new conceptualization of the "long
last Ottoman decade" (1912-22), one that places this era and its
actors more firmly at the center, instead of on the periphery, of a
history of a Greater Europe, a history comprising - as contemporary
maps did - Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman world.
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.
This book addresses the conflicts, myths, and memories that grew
out of the Great War in Ottoman Turkey, and their legacies in
society and politics. It is the third volume in a series dedicated
to the combined analysis of the Ottoman Great War and the Armenian
Genocide. In Australia and New Zealand, and even more in the
post-Ottoman Middle East, the memory of the First World War still
has an immediacy that it has long lost in Europe. For the
post-Ottoman regions, the first of the two World Wars, which ended
Ottoman rule, was the formative experience. This volume analyses
this complex configuration: why these entanglements became
possible; how shared or even contradictory memories have been
constructed over the past hundred years, and how differing
historiographies have developed. Remembering the Great War in the
Middle East reaches towards a new conceptualization of the “long
last Ottoman decade” (1912-22), one that places this era and its
actors more firmly at the center, instead of on the periphery, of a
history of a Greater Europe, a history comprising – as
contemporary maps did – Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman world.
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.
With the end of the First World War, the centuries-old social
fabric of the Ottoman world an entangled space of religious
co-existence throughout the Balkans and the Middle East came to its
definitive end. In this new study, Hans-Lukas Kieser argues that
while the Ottoman Empire officially ended in 1922, when the Turkish
nationalists in Ankara abolished the Sultanate, the essence of its
imperial character was destroyed in 1915 when the Young Turk regime
eradicated the Armenians from Asia Minor. This book analyses the
dynamics and processes that led to genocide and left behind today s
crisis-ridden post-Ottoman Middle East. Going beyond Istanbul, the
book also studies three different but entangled late Ottoman areas:
Palestine, the largely Kurdo-Armenian eastern provinces and the
Aegean shores; all of which were confronted with new claims from
national movements that questioned the Ottoman state. All would
remain regions of conflict up to the present day.Using new primary
material, World War I and the End of the Ottoman World brings
together analysis of the key forces which undermined an empire, and
marks an important new contribution to the study of the Ottoman
world and the Middle East. "
Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the
twentieth century and was a central driving force in Kemal
Ataturk's foundation of the Republic in 1923. How did the
prominence of Kemalist ways of political thinking affect its people
and policies? Is Turkey making progress towards post-nationalism or
post-Kemalism in the twenty-first century? To what extent has
Turkey's EU candidature been a vehicle of transformation since 1999
and what would EU membership mean for modern Turkey? This book
explores the historical impact of Turkish nationalism, anti-
liberalism and Westernization and examines the conditions that have
contributed to the country's evolution from a quasi-religious
Kemalism. Tracing the development of nationalism from its founding
period before the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to Kemalism and the
present AKP government- and analysing key factors such as the
position of minorities in the Turkification process and the
influence of religious politics-this strong and significant
contribution casts a new light on a vivid international debate.
Discusses how missionaries and evangelical politics influenced
American government policy in the Middle East
This is a collection of articles discussing the usages of and
changes in the Turkish language during the late Ottoman Empire and
early Republican periods.
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