The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia: Turkey's Belle Epoque and the Transition to a Modern Nation State

by Emre Erol

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857728814
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/22/2016
Series:	Library of Ottoman Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Emre Erol is Docent at Leiden University where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Erik J Zurcher."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgements xv

A Note on Place Names xvii

Introduction 1

1 Incorporation into Capitalism; From a Commercial Hub to a Boomtown 21

2 Ottoman Modernization and its Consequences 63

3 Bourgeoisie Cosmopolitanism or Nationalisms? 96

4 The Seeds of Turmoil and Transition 110

5 June 1914: The Spring of Organized Chaos 163

6 Extended Warfare and the End of the Belle Époque 194

Epilogue: A Ghost Town 230

Appendix 245

Notes 255

Bibliography 299

Index 311