Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914

ISBN-13: 9781107033658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 366 str.

Sabri Ates

Opis

Examines the making of the present day Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish boundary, shedding new light on some of the most contentious issues of today.

Recenzje

'Ateş' study is full of new information, new arguments, and offers new perspectives to historians who aim to study frontier regions, centre-periphery relations and state formation processes in general and Kurdish history in particular.' Yener Koç, Kurdish Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Kurdish frontier in Ottoman-Qajar relations; 2. Laying the ground: the concert of Zagros; 3. The long journey of the first survey commission; 4. The borderland between the Crimean War and Berlin congress; 5. Sunnis for the sultan: the Ottoman occupation of northwestern Iran, 1905–12; 6. Boundary at last; Conclusion.