The Margins of Empire

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Éditeur : Stanford University Press	Date & Lieu : 1969, Stanford
Préface :	Pages : 294
Traduction :	ISBN : 978-0-8047-7570-0
Langue : Anglais	Format : 150x225 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. Kle. Mar. 4757	Thème : Histoire

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The Margins of Empire Janet Klein Stanford University Press 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 vividly engages in the study of the paradoxes inherent in modern statecraft. Janet Klein is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Akron.


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Janet Klein The Margins of Empire Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone Stanford University Press Stanford University Press The Margins of Empire Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone Janet Klein Jacket design Angela Moody \| amoodycovcr.com Jacket photo Group of Kurd Hamidiyeh Cavalry. Lynch,- Henry Finnis Blosse. Armenia: Travels and Studies, vol. 2. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Stanford University press W. Sup. Org. Stanford University Press Stanford, California © zoi i by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Klein, Janet, 1969-author. The margins of empire : Kurdish militias in the Ottoman tribal zone / Janet Klein pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0 (cloth : alk. paper)