Overview

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'. As the Empire fell away however, the beginnings of a young, vibrant and radical Turkish nationalism took root in Anatolia. The summer of 1908 saw a group known as the Young Turks attempt to revitalise Turkey with a constitutional revolution aimed at reducing the power of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdulhammid II- who was seen to preside over the Ottoman Empire's decline. Drawing on popular support for the efence of the Ottoman Empire's Balkan territories in particular, the Young Turks promised to build a nation from the people up, rather than from the top down. Here, Y. Dogan Cetinkaya analyses the history of the Boycott Movement, a series of nationwide public meetings and protests which enshrined the Turkish democractic voice. He argues that the 1908 revolution the Young Turks engendered was in fact a crucial link in the wave of constitutional revolutions at the beginning of the twentieth century- in Russia (1905), Iran (1906), Mexico (1910) and China (1911) and as such should be studied in the context of the wider rise of democratic nationalism across the world. The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement is the first history to show how this phenomenon laid the foundations for the modern Turkish state and will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire and of the history of Modern Turkey.

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Author:   Y. Dogan Çetinkaya
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Volume:   v. 41
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781780764726

ISBN 10:   1780764723
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   17 February 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter I: Classes and the Problem of Agency in the Ottoman Empire Non-Muslim Bourgeoisie and the State Muslim Merchants Muslim Working-class Culture, Class Consciousness and Islam Chapter II: The Emergence of Economic Boycott as a Political Weapon, 1908 People Takes Action: Mass Actions and Public Demonstrations The Organization Workers' Boycott: Oscillating in between Strike and Boycott Merchants in the Boycott: The Weakest Link Popularization of the National Economy Chapter III: The Shift from Foreign to Internal Enemies, 1910-1911 The Cretan Question Meetings, Direct Actions and Mobilization of the Society The Boycott Society Muslims versus non-Muslims National Economy, Muslims Merchants and the Working-class State and the Boycott Movement Chapter IV: The Muslim Protest: Economic Boycott as a Weapon under Peacetimes, 1913-1914 The Political Milieu Pamphleting the Muslim Public Henceforth Goods to be Purchased from Muslim Merchants Banditry and Agency in the Boycott Movement Epilogue: The Mass Politics in the Second Constitutional Period and the Boycott Movement Popularization of Politics and the Shift in Mass Politics Mass Politics, National Economy and the Boycott Movement Popular Ideology, Islam and the Mobilization of the Masses Bibliography

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Dogan Cetinkaya is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University, Turkey.

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