Kate Dannies is an Assistant Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her publications include an entry in Ute Daniel et al. (eds), International Encyclopedia of the First World War and articles in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association and International Journal of Middle East Studies.

• Note on UsageList of Illustrations AcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction: Militarising Institutions and Mobilising Families in the Late Ottoman EmpireFamily and the Making of Ottoman Military Law during the Long Nineteenth CenturyMobilising Breadwinners between the Crimean War and the Balkan WarsEliminating Breadwinner Exemptions between the Balkan Wars and World War IExtraction, Survival and Ottoman Households during World War ISoldier Subjectivity, Family and Desertion during World War IReconstructing Ottoman Society through Family at the End of EmpireConclusion: Family and Army between the Ottoman Empire and the Post-Ottoman Middle EastBibliographyIndex

Kate Dannies goes beyond the prominent personages and abstract ideologies that dominate the historiography of Ottoman military reform and the First World War to focus on what really mattered to everyday Ottoman soldiers. Through the family, she explores how the Ottoman government entered a new social contract with the men who fought its final wars and the women in their lives, tracing the entangled obligations of both state and citizen concerning matters of politics, gender, labor, and the law. Required reading for students of late Ottoman history and European military history alike