Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire : : A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918 / / Isa Blumi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Blumi, Isa,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)

This collection of Isa Blumi’s essays comprises one historian’s attempts at understanding the late Ottoman Empire through a series of studies of Ottoman Albania and Yemen.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction. Blinded by the State: Revisiting Late Ottoman Social History in the Balkans and Arabia -- 2. Finding Social History on the Bookshelf: The Tyranny of Sociological Categories in Studies on Albanians and the Balkans -- 3. Redefining Tribal Pathologies, Yemen's undeclared Dynamic beyond the Gaze of the State -- 4. All was not Quiet on the Southern Front: Yemen's Social Hierarchies and the Role of the Ottoman State, 1911-1918 -- 5. Understanding the Margins of Albanian History: Communities on the Edges of the Ottoman Empire -- 6. Defying the State and Defining the State: Local Politics in Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912 -- 7. Locating Fragmented Identities in Switzerland's Ottoman-Albanian Diaspora, 1899-1920 -- 8. Undressing Malësore Albanians: Rewriting Late Ottoman History through its Material Culture -- 9. Resisting Globalization Through the Eyes of Albanian Muslims: Comparing the Successes of the 19th century to the failures of the 21st -- 10. Divergent Loyalties and Their Memory: Albanian Soldiers in the Great War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography