The Ottoman mobilization of manpower in the First World War : between voluntarism and resistance /
The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War offers a multi-faceted story of how the Ottoman Empire tried to cope with the challenges of permanent mobilization under total war conditions which reshaped state-society relations. By focusing mainly on Anatolia and the Muslim population,...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
Series:
The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage
52.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248731.
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Call Number: D524.7.T8 B47 2012
| Summary: | The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War offers a multi-faceted story of how the Ottoman Empire tried to cope with the challenges of permanent mobilization under total war conditions which reshaped state-society relations. By focusing mainly on Anatolia and the Muslim population, Mehmet Beşikçi argues that the conditions of mobilization pushed the Ottoman state to become more centralized, authoritarian and nationalist, but the increasing dependence on people paradoxically also enlarged their space of action vis-à-vis state authority. The book demonstrates that people's responses to the state's needs constituted a wide spectrum ranging from voluntary support to open resistance such as desertion. In turn, the state responded by revising its mobilization policies and reformulating new mechanisms of control at the local level. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) : mappages. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004235298 |
| ISSN: | 1380-6076 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |