Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia

Ottoman Turkey''s coastal provinces in the early nineteenth century were economic powerhouses teeming with innovation wealth and energy a legacy of the Ottoman s outward-looking and trade-orientated diplomacy. By the middle of the century the wide-ranging and radical process of modernisation known collectively as the Tanzimat was underway in part a symptom of a slow decline in Ottoman financial strength. By the 1920s the coastal cities were ghost towns. The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia seeks to unpick how and why this happened. A detailed rich and authoritative regional study this book offers a unique and original insight into the effects of forced migration displacement economic re-organisation and the competing political ideologies focused on modernisation all of which are central to the study of the late Ottoman Empire.