Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces

di Talin Suciyan (Autore)

Syracuse University Press, 2023

The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s exhortation to study the oppressed to understand the rule and the ruler, Talin Suciyan reexamines this era from the perspective of the Armenians. In exploring the temporal and territorial differences between the Ottoman capital and the provinces, Suciyan brings the unheard voices of Armenians into the present. Drawing upon the rich archival materials in both the Archives of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Ottoman Archives, Suciyan uses these to show the integral role Armenians played in all aspects of Ottoman life and argues that accounts of their lives are vital to documents representation of the Tanzimat era. In shedding much needed light on the lives of those who were vulnerable, disadvantaged, and otherwise oppressed, Suciyan takes a significant step toward a more inclusive Ottoman history.

• Autore: Talin Suciyan
• Editore: Syracuse University Press
• Collana: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 272 gr.
• EAN: 9780815638193

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