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Author Klein, Janet, 1969- author.

Title The margins of empire : Kurdish militias in the Ottoman tribal zone / Janet Klein.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.
Contents Introduction : the Hamidiye Light Cavalry in the Ottoman tribal zone -- A manifold mission -- The Hamidiye under Abdülhamid II : 1890-1908 -- The tribal light cavalry under the Young Turks : 1908-1914 -- The Hamidiye and the "agrarian question" -- The Hamidiye and its legacy.
Summary 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.
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Subject Turkey -- Militia -- History.
Turkey.
Militia.
History.
Turkey -- Armed Forces -- Minorities -- History.
Armed Forces.
Minorities.
Kurds -- Turkey -- History.
Kurds.
Kurds -- Turkey -- Government relations.
Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Klein, Janet, 1969- author. Margins of empire. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011, ©2011 9780804775700 (DLC) 2010043991 (OCoLC)670375499
ISBN 9780804777759 (electronic book)
0804777756 (electronic book)
9780804775700
0804775702