Religion, ethnicity and contested nationhood in the former Ottoman space / edited by Jørgen Nielsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: new perspectives on Ottoman history / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- The Young Turks in power: a comparative and critical perspective / Klas-Göran Karlsson -- The Ottoman Empire between successors: thinking from 1821 to 1922 / Christine Philliou -- The Non-Muslim tax farmers in the fiscal and economic system of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century / Svetla Ianeva -- Conceptualizing difference during the Second Constitutional Period: new sources, old challenges / Kent F. Schull -- An Ottoman against the constitution: The Maronites of Mount Lebanon and the question of representation in the Ottoman Parliament / Abdulrahim Abuhusayn -- Late Ottoman state education / Michael Provence -- The Art of being replaced: the last of the Cretan Muslims between the empire and the nation-state / Elektra Kostopoulou -- Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey: medieval Anatolian warlord or Kemalist language reformer? history, language politics and the celebration of the Language Festival in Karaman, Turkey, 1961-2008 / Sara Nur Yildiz -- Ottoman Saida and problems of a Lebanese 'national' narrative / James A. Reilly -- Conversion to Islam in Bulgarian historiography: an overview / Rossitsa Gradeva -- The short history of Bulgaria for export / Evelina Kelbecheva -- Recent developments in the historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to the Ottoman Empire and their Impact on history textbooks / Vera Katz.

There has been a growing interest in recent years in reviewing the continued impact of the Ottoman empire even long after its demise at the end of the First World War. The wars in former Yugoslavia, following hot on the civil war in Lebanon, were reminders that the settlements of 1918-22 were not final. While many of the successor states to the Ottoman empire, in east and west, had been built on forms of nationalist ideology and rhetoric opposed to the empire, a newer trend among historians has been to look at these histories as Ottoman provincial history. The present volume is an attempt to bring some of those histories from across the former Ottoman space together. They cover from parts of former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece to Lebanon, including Turkey itself, providing rich material for comparing regions which normally are not compared. Readership: Those interested in late Ottoman history and the historiography of Ottoman successor nations, nationalism and ethnic and religious relations.