Availability:In StockContributor:Owen Robert MillerPublish date:12/11/2025Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009524957ISBN-10:100952495XUPC:9781009524957Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Middle EastSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCNKT2Z60Q
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009524957ISBN-10:100952495XUPC:9781009524957Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Middle EastSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCNKT2Z60Q
Miller, Owen Robert: - 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.
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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.
Miller, Owen Robert: - 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.
