Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire

"Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire eschews conventional accounts of nationalism and secularism, and is fully conversant with revisionist writings on the Tanzimat. Armenian reformers, Richard Antaramian persuasively argues, were more Ottoman than the Ottomans in embracing reform. Ironically, this left them vulnerable, as shown in this vivid account."-Molly Greene, Princeton University "Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire challenges and enriches our understanding of Ottoman governance on the cusp of the age of nationalism. Richard Antaramian provides a much-needed corrective to a historiography that often presents 'Armenian' and 'Ottoman' as mutually exclusive categories. An empirically rich work."-Ipek Kocaömer Yosmaoglu, Northwestern University "Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire is an exemplar of archive-powered study that is successful in depicting the Armenian nation in its own rights and struggles."-Emrah Sahin, Journal of Church and State "Antaramian's nuanced analysis renders the book an essential read for Armenian as well as late Ottoman history. It is a welcome invitation for historians of the Modern Middle East to re-think about the role of non-Muslim communities in the transformation of imperial governance, the lasting effects of the politics of religious difference, and the vulnerability of certain communities as they get marginalized from the administrative apparatus of empires and eventually, nation-states."-Varak Ketsemanian, Études Arméniennes Contemporaines