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

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.

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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (213 p.)
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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