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Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War

Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War

Dannies, Kate

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire

Turkey & Ottoman Empire HistoryWorld War I

ISBN10: 139956305X
ISBN13: 9781399563055
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the gender and family dimensions of mobilisation for the First World War in the Ottoman Empire, situating the war in a long-nineteenth-century social history of Ottoman military reform for the first time. It focuses on the military legal concept of muinsizlik (sole breadwinning) and how this concept shaped Ottoman military policy - namely, how militarisation and mobilisation were supported by the exploitation of women's care and social reproductive labour, as well as the extraction of material and physical resources from Ottoman families.

In exploring how war worked at the level of the body, the individual and the family, this book demonstrates how Ottoman society and war became imbricated through processes of militarisation that led to significant consequences during the First World War and its aftermath. Based on a gendered reading of Ottoman military and bureaucratic archives, it addresses a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East that has long awaited further study from a bottom-up perspective.

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