{"product_id":"empire-of-refugees-north-caucasian-muslims-and-the-late-ottoman-state-paperback-softback-9781503637740","title":"Empire of Refugees; North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503637740","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNorth Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503637740\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 11 tables, 8 halftones, 9 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.512 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A brilliant tour de force. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a detailed, revisionist understanding of the beginnings of the modern refugee regime.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford \"Magnificent and magisterial. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e not only reveals the emergence of a new template for refugee flows in the modern world, but it also captures the human experiences of the refugees themselves: their sorrows, hopes, failures, and successes. A prodigious achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Michael A. Reynolds, Princeton University \"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched and imaginatively conceived history of mass migration that represents a genuinely fresh contribution to both late Ottoman history and global refugee studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Laura Robson, Pennsylvania State University \"Through an impressive approach to history from below, Hamed-Troyansky provides voice and agency to the refugees who have so far been silent on the pages of history. Through meticulous use of archives, diaries, letters, interviews, and petitions in multiple languages, he provides new ways of understanding the refugees' experience(s).... The fascinating book should not only be considered a significant contribution to Russian, Ottoman, Caucasian, and Middle Eastern studies but also to the disciplines of refugee studies, diaspora studies, and genocide studies.\"—Bedross Der Matossian, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh take on the late Ottoman state and how the refugee question was a factor in many important events towards the end of the empire. A unique perspective on an under-explored topic, the book enriches Ottoman studies and makes for compelling reading for anyone interested in history.\"—Usman Butt, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e \"The book thrusts the North Caucasus firmly into the center of immigration and diasporic studies, and it reminds us of the contribution of Ottoman-Russian relations for the history of international law and humanitarian relief.\"—Lucien Frary, \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e stands as an exceptional resource for anyone interested in global migration, refugee governance, and migration and resettlement policies. I highly recommend its inclusion in curricula for disciplines such as history, refugee studies, international relations, anthropology, and sociology.\"—Fulya Pinar, \u003ci\u003eCritical Forced Displacement\u003c\/i\u003e \"To tell this story, Hamed-Troyansky relies on a breathtaking diversity and depth of sources: twenty-three archives across ten countries, private papers and letters, and even interviews. He tells stories of imperial politics, local bureaucratic management, urban socioeconomic changes, and family microhistories.\"—Will Smiley, \u003ci\u003eJotwell\u003c\/i\u003e \"Through meticulous interpretation and deft analysis of primary source materials written in the mutually unintelligible languages of the great imperial triad: the Caucasus, tsarist Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, this monograph emerges as a striking example of groundbreaking scholarship, which has already prompted shifts in our understanding of the entangled history of migration and displacement in the Caucasus region during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\"—Sergey Salushchev, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Caucasian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"Hamed-Troyansky's main success lies in his combination of imperial and migration history. This juxtaposition allows us to comprehend how Ottoman and Russian rulers sought to avail themselves of the muhajirs while the latter equally sought to instrumentalize imperial structures in order to survive. As such, the title of the book acquires a facetted meaning ingeniously implied. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e undermines current myths surrounding migration and the political fronts surrounding it.\"—Paul Csillag, \u003ci\u003eCEU Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e, Hamed-Troyansky achieves something rare: bridging disciplinary divides and masterfully navigating challenging source material, he tells a truly transimperial history that combines the perspectives of different authorities and peoples.\"—Denise Klein, \u003ci\u003eTurkish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e is a study that compellingly intertwines the stories of the North Caucasian Muslims with imperial centralization policies and the global history of migration.\"—Enes Şamil Kiraz, \u003ci\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"Did you know that the Jordanian capital Amman was founded by Circassian refugees from the North Caucasus, and that the history of the Beşiktaş football club goes back to a Circassian gymnastics association? If you didn't, then you will find Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's very readable monograph an eye-opener in terms of traces of North Caucasus refugee settlement in various parts of the late Ottoman Empire.\"—Michael Kemper, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Islamic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"Mining archives in multiple languages from across the region, Hamed-Troyansky compellingly argues that the Ottoman authorities set up a refugee regime to absorb the influx of these \u003ci\u003emuhacirler\u003c\/i\u003e (refugees) and that the resettlement of these refugees exerted 'a profound impact on both the survival and the demise of the Ottoman Empire'.... Recommended.\"—K. Mouradian, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIllustrations and Tables\u003cbr\u003e  Notes for the Reader\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  PART I: Refugee Migration\u003cbr\u003e  1. Muslim Migrations from the North Caucasus\u003cbr\u003e  2. Ottoman Refugee Regime\u003cbr\u003e  PART II: Refugee Resettlement\u003cbr\u003e  3. Inequality and Sectarian Violence in the Balkans\u003cbr\u003e  4. Real Estate and Nomadic Frontier in the Levant\u003cbr\u003e  5. Building the Caucasus in Anatolia\u003cbr\u003e  PART III: Diaspora and Return\u003cbr\u003e  6. Making the North Caucasian Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e  7. Return Migration to Russia\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653254607128,"sku":"9781503637740","price":20.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/empire-of-refugees-north-caucasian-muslims-and-the-late-ottoman-state-paperback-softback-9781503637740","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}