World War I and the End of the Ottomans

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich and president of the Switzerland-Turkey Research Foundation in Basel.

• List of Illustrations and Tables Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction World War I and the End of the Ottomans: From the Balkan Wars to the Armenian Genocide Hans-Lukas Kieser, Kerem Öktem, Maurus ReinkowskiPart I Toward War1. The Ottoman Road to Total War (1913–15) Hans-Lukas Kieser2. Seferberlik: Building Up the Ottoman Home Front Yigit AkinPart II Demise of Ottomanity in the Balkans and Western Anatolia3. “Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!” “Awakening a Nation” through Propaganda in the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars (1912–13) Y. Dogan Çetinkaya4. “Macedonian Question” in Western Anatolia: The Ousting of the Ottoman Greeks before World War I Emre ErolPart III Ottoman Perspectives in Palestine5. “The Ottoman Sickness and Its Doctors”: Imperial Loyalty in Palestine on the Eve of World War I Michelle U. Campos6. Palestine’s Population and the Question of Ottomanism during the Last Decade of Ottoman Rule Yuval Ben-BassatPart IV Reform or Cataclysm in the Kurdo-Armenian Eastern Provinces?7. Land Disputes and Reform Debates in the Eastern Provinces Mehmet Polatel8. The German Role in the Reform Discussion of 1913–14Thomas Schmutz9. Building the “Model Ottoman Citizen”: Life and Deathin the Region of Harput-Mamu¨ retu¨ laziz (1908–15) Vahé Tachjian10. Explaining Regional Variations in the Armenian GenocideU?ur Ümit ÜngörAfterword Hamit BozarslanChronology BibliographyIndex