Parution : Owen Robert Miller, The Conquest of the Mountains. State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East, Cambridge University Press, 2025

The Conquest of the MountainsState Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East Owen Robert Miller In the late summer of 1894, Sultan Abdülhamid II ordered several battalions of Ottoman soldiers to destroy Armenian 'bandits' operating in the remote mountains of Sasun. Over a three-week period, these soldiers systematically murdered men, women, and children, beginning a chain of events which led directly to the Hamidian massacres of 1895 to 1897 and prefigure...