To kill a sultan : a transnational history of the attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905) / edited by Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem, and Henk de Smaele.

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English
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  • London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
  • ©2018
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xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    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. This book explores 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.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: anatomy of the Yıldız Bombing: tracing the global in the particular / Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem and Henk de Smaele
    • The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Operation 'Nejuik' / Gaïdz Minassian
    • Edward Joris: caught between continents and ideologies? / Maarten Van Ginderachter
    • The Ottoman War on 'anarchism' and revolutionary violence / Toygun Altıntaş
    • Belgium and the Hamidian Regime; or, the antinomies of small state diplomacy / Houssine Alloul
    • Extraterritorial prosecution, the late capitulations, and the new international lawyers / Will Hanley
    • Covering the Ottoman Empire: orientalism and the mass media / Henk de Smaele
    • The 'Jorisards': public mobilization between local emotions and universal rights / Marnix Beyen
    • Conclusions: Ottoman Armenian revolutionaries and the dilemma of deliverance through violence / İpek K. Yosmaoğlu.
    ISBN
    • 9781137489319
    • 1137489316
    LCCN
    2019737847
    OCLC
    1013914110
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