End of the Ottomans

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 <i>The End of the Ottomans</i>is a vital new study of the Ottoman world the Armenian Genocide and of the Middle East.