To Kill a Sultan A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905) /

This book explores an event described by The Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21st July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yildiz Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead with another 58 wounded....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Middle East-History.
World politics.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
History, Modern.
World history.
ISBN:9781137489326
Online Access: Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: Anatomy of the Yıldız Bombing: Tracing the Global in the Particular; Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem, and Henk de Smaele
  • 2 The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Operation 'Nejuik'; Gaïdz Minassian
  • 3 Edward Joris: Caught between Continents and Ideologies?; Maarten Van Ginderachter
  • 4 The Ottoman War on 'Anarchism' and Revolutionary Violence; Toygun Altıntaş
  • 5 Belgium and the Hamidian Regime; Or, the Antinomies of Small State Diplomacy; Houssine Alloul
  • 6 Extraterritorial Prosecution, the Late Capitulations, and the New International Lawyers; Will Hanley
  • 7 Covering the Ottoman Empire: Orientalism and the Mass Media; Henk de Smaele
  • 8 The 'Jorisards': Public Mobilization between Local Emotions and Universal Rights; Marnix Beyen
  • 9 CONCLUSIONS: Ottoman Armenian Revolutionaries and the Dilemma of Deliverance through Violence; İpek K. Yosmaoğul
  • 10 EPILOGUE; Edhem Eldem.

Similar Items