Ottoman refugees, 1878-1939 : migration in a post-Imperial world / Isa Blumi.
Material type: TextPublisher: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013Description: xvii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1472515366; 9781472515360Other title: Migration in a post-imperial worldSubject(s): Refugees -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century | Refugees -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century | Turkey -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century | Turkey -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 325.210956109034 LOC classification: HV640.4.T9 | B586 2013Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | The BIAA David H. French Library Shelf 62 - Reading Room | H2n BLUMI 30324 | Not for loan | BOOKS-000000023243 |
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [233]-265) and index.
Prelude to disaster : finance capitalism and the political economy of imperial collapse -- Resettlement regimes and empire : the politics of caring for Ottoman refugees -- Traveling the contours of an Ottoman proximate world -- Transitional migrants : the global Ottoman refugee and colonial terror -- Missionaries at the imperial ideological edge.
In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis unfolded. Often, these refugees of the Ottoman Empire - Christians, Muslims and Jews - found their way to new continents, forming an Ottoman diaspora that had a remarkable ability to reconstitute, and even expand, the ethnic, religious, and ideological diversity of their homelands.
Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939 offers a unique study of a transitional period in world history experienced through these refugees living in the Middle East, the Americas, South-East Asia, East Africa and Europe. Isa Blumi explores the tensions emerging between those trying to preserve a world almost entirely destroyed by both the nation-state and global capitalism and the agents of the so-called Modern era. -- Publisher.