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9781474462648
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Studies the frontier cultures of revolution that shaped the making of the modern Middle EastUses a novel conceptual framework that charts the rise of transgressive politics in the frontiers of empiresIncludes a variety of biographical approaches to the key disruptive figures during the crisis of imperial and post-imperial regimes in the regionRepresents a connected geography of imperial collapse and nation-state formation in 12 case study chaptersEngages with scholarship on intercommunal violence, revolutionary politics, and subaltern agencyIn Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time.Rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers played central roles in the violent process of imperial disintegration as it unfolded in the frontiers of the Ottoman, Habsburg, Romanov and Qajar empires. This is a history of these transgressive actors from the late-19th century to the interwar years. This time was marked by similar, if not shared, revolutionary experiences and repertoires of contention across the connected geography of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Notes on Contributors --
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About this Book --
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Foreword --
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Part I Rogues in History --
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1 Age of Rogues: Transgressive Politics at the Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire --
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2 Gendered Narratives of Transgressive Politics: Recovering Revolutionary Rubina --
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3 Caucasian Banditry in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of Abrek Zelimkhan --
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4 Racketeers in Politics: Theoretical Reflections on Strong-man Performances in Late Qajar Iran --
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Part II Rogues and Regimes --
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5 Conspiracy under Trial: Christian Brigands, Rebels and Activists in Bosnia during the Tanzimat --
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6 The Abode of Sedition: Resistance, Repression and Revolution in Sasun, 1891–1904 --
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7 Conspiracy, International Police Cooperation and the Fight against Anarchism in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1878–1908 --
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8 Between Ruler and Rogue: Sayyid Talib al-Naqib and the British in Early Twentieth-century Basra --
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Part III Rogue Trajectories --
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9 Chemistry of Revolution: Naum Tyufekchiev and the Trajectories of Revolutionary Violence in the Late Ottoman Europe --
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10 Late-Ottoman ‘Rogues’ and their Paths to Power: A Prosopographic Study --
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11 A Man of the Frontier: Ramadan Shallash and the Making of the Post‑Ottoman Arab East --
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12 The Last Ottoman Rogues: The Kurdish–Armenian Alliance in Syria and the New State System in the Interwar Middle East --
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Afterword --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9781474462648
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474462648
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