Owen Robert Miller

The Conquest of the Mountains

State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the late summer of 1894, Sultan Abdülhamid II ordered several battalions of Ottoman soldiers to destroy Armenian 'bandits' operating in the remote mountains of Sasun. Over a three-week period, these soldiers systematically murdered men, women, and children, beginning a chain of events which led directly to the Hamidian massacres of 1895 to 1897 and prefigured many of the patterns of the Medz Yeghern (Great Crime) of 1915-1917. Taking a microhistorical approach, Owen Robert Miller examines how the Ottoman State harnessed three nascent technologies (modern firearms, steamboats, and telegraphs) to centralize authority and envisage new methods of conquest. Alongside developing an understanding of how the violence took place, this study explores how competing narratives of the massacre unfolded and were both disseminated and repressed. Emphasizing the pivotal significance of geography and new technologies, The Conquest of the Mountains reveals how the tragic history of these massacres underscores the development of Ottoman State authoritarianism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009524957
• ISBN-10: 100952495X
• Artikelnr.: 74434423

Autorenporträt

Owen Robert Miller is Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University. His fields of research include Ottoman-US relations and the global histories of mountain people.  He has published in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, The Muslim World, Middle Eastern Studies, and Études arméniennes contemporaines.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Into the mountains
2. The trials of empire
3. Leaving a legacy of terror
4. The struggle over narrative
5. Sasun in the British press
6. The monopolization of legitimate narrative
7. Competing narratives
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.