To Kill a Sultan A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905)
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
20.11.2017
Abbildungen
XIII, 281 p. 8 illus.
Herausgeber
Houssine Alloul + weitereVerlag
Palgrave Macmillan UKSeitenzahl
281
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/2.1 cm
Gewicht
459 g
Auflage
1st edition 2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-137-48931-9
This book explores an event described by the
Times
as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdülhamid II, the target of the attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that Armenian revolutionaries were behind the plot and several people were arrested and convicted, among them the Belgian anarchist Edward Joris. His incarceration sparked international reaction and created a diplomatic conflict. The assassination attempt failed, the events faded from memory, and the plot became a footnote in early twentieth-century history. This book rediscovers the conspiracy as a transnational moment in late Ottoman history, opening a window on key themes in modern history, such as international law, terrorism, Orientalism, diplomacy, anarchism, imperialism, nationalism,mass media and humanitarianism. It provides an original look on the many trans- and international links between the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the rest of the world at the start of the twentieth century.
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