The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

by Chris Gratien

Book Overview

The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the modern world. Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the environmental transformation of the Ottoman countryside became intertwined with migration and displacement. Muslim refugees, mountain nomads, families deported in the Armenian Genocide, and seasonal workers from all over the empire endured hardship, exile, and dispossession...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503631265
• ISBN13: 9781503631267
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"