Mehmet Polatel’s book “Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire, 1850–1914” published

Edinburgh University Press has announced the publication of Dr. Mehmet Polatel’s Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire, 1850–1914. The book is part of the series “Edinburgh Studies on Ottoman History,” edited by Kent F. Schull (Binghamton University).

Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire traces the transformation of land disputes involving Armenians into the Armenian land question from the mid-19th century to the outbreak of the First World War. Situating this event into its historical context, marked by the rise of the central administrative state, encroachment of capitalism and the new territorial turn that changed the political significance of land ownership, this book argues that the Armenian land question was shaped by two conflicting trends: liberalization and nationalization of land.