Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires
Ramazan Öztan and Alp Yenen
Abstract
The making of the modern world was a result of the fall of empires and the emergence of nation-states. This is particularly true across the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, a region connecting the Balkans to the Black Sea littoral, and the Middle East to the Caucasus. In approaching this poly-ethnic, multi-religious and trans-imperial hub of turmoil, the existing historiographies have either trivialized or idealized the role of rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers. Although revisionist scholarship has critically analysed political violence, imperialism and nation-state building, there is sti ... More
The making of the modern world was a result of the fall of empires and the emergence of nation-states. This is particularly true across the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, a region connecting the Balkans to the Black Sea littoral, and the Middle East to the Caucasus. In approaching this poly-ethnic, multi-religious and trans-imperial hub of turmoil, the existing historiographies have either trivialized or idealized the role of rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers. Although revisionist scholarship has critically analysed political violence, imperialism and nation-state building, there is still a need to develop a comparative understanding of political actors that shaped the moments of political transition in these frontiers of empires. We accordingly propose a new genre of comparative and connected histories of rebels, revolutionaries and racketeers during what we call an “Age of Rogues.”
Keywords:
Revolution,
political violence,
nationalism,
empire,
transgressive politics,
Balkans,
Middle East,
Caucasus
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474462624 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2022 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474462624.001.0001 |
