Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire
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Family
First World War
forthcoming
Gender
Late Ottoman History
Militarisation
Modern Middle East
Ottoman Empire
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- ISBN 9781399563055
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kate Dannies is an Assistant Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her publications include an entry in Ute Daniel et al. (eds), International Encyclopedia of the First World War and articles in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association and International Journal of Middle East Studies.
