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Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire traces the transformation of land disputes involving Armenians into the Armenian land question from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. Situating this event into its historical context marked by the rise of the central administrative state, encroachment of capitalism and the new territorial turn that changed the political significance of land ownership, this book argues that the Armenian land question was shaped by two conflicting trends: liberalisation and nationalisation of land.
The book also shows how mass violence transformed competitive struggles and socioeconomic life and structures on the one hand, and how these struggles strained intercommunal relations and blocked possibilities of normalisation on the other. Examining the actions and discourses of Armenian and Kurdish intellectuals, Muslim powerholders in the provinces, and Ottoman officials and the Istanbul elite - along with the institutions, local and national, that sustained these groups, it populates a large blank space in our existing picture of the late Ottoman Empire.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations, Acronyms and Non-English Terms
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgement
Introduction: The Political and Economic Aspects of the Land Question
1. Law, Land and Politics: The Transformation of Ottoman Land Regime
2. Peasants versus Notables: The Emergence of the Armenian Land Question (1850-80)
3. Mass Violence and Mass Seizures (1880-1908)
4. Controlling Outcomes: The Hamidian Government and Land Disputes
5. Revolution, Resolution and Resistance (1908-12): The Land Question under the Young Turks
6. The Reforms and the Land Question after the Outbreak of the Balkan Wars
7. The Land Question on the Eve of the First World War
Conclusion: The Armenian Genocide and the Land Question
Bibliography
Index
