Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918

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This collection of Isa Blumi's essays comprises one historian's attempts at understanding the late Ottoman Empire through a series of studies of Ottoman Albania and Yemen. Table Of Contents Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction. Blinded by the State: Revisiting Late Ottoman Social History in the Balkans and Arabia 2. Finding Social History on the Bookshelf: The Tyranny of Sociological Categories in Studies on Albanians and the Balkans 3. Redefining Tribal Pathologies, Yemen's undeclared Dynamic beyond the Gaze of the State 4. All was not Quiet on the Southern Front: Yemen's Social Hierarchies and the Role of the Ottoman State, 1911-1918 5. Understanding the Margins of Albanian History: Communities on the Edges of the Ottoman Empire 6. Defying the State and Defining the State: Local Politics in Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912 7. Locating Fragmented Identities in Switzerland's Ottoman-Albanian Diaspora, 1899-1920 8. Undressing Malësore Albanians: Rewriting Late Ottoman History through its Material Culture 9. Resisting Globalization Through the Eyes of Albanian Muslims: Comparing the Successes of the 19th century to the failures of the 21st 10. Divergent Loyalties and Their Memory: Albanian Soldiers in the Great War Conclusion Bibliography