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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511790403321

Autore

Blumi Isa <1969->

Titolo

Ottoman refugees, 1878-1939 : migration in a post-imperial world / / Isa Blumi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4725-1537-4

1-4725-1538-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 274 pages) : illustration, maps

Disciplina

949.7103

Soggetti

Refugees - Turkey - History - 19th century

Refugees - Turkey - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Turkey Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Turkey Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story unfolded of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis. 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."-