Balkan reconquista and the end of Turkey-in-Europe : massacre and migration, memory and forgetting, 1877-1878 /

Balkan reconquista and the end of Turkey-in-Europe : massacre and migration, memory and forgetting, 1877-1878 /

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Author / Creator:	Holt, William H., 1979- author.
Imprint:	Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 -- Atrocities. Muslims -- Crimes against -- Balkan Peninsula. Muslims -- Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 19th century. Muslims -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century. Refugees -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century. Atrocities. Emigration and immigration. Muslims. Muslims -- Crimes against. Refugees. Balkan Peninsula -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. Turkey -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. Balkan Peninsula. Turkey. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12399338

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ISBN:	1607816962 9781607816966 9781607816959
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"Balkan Reconquista and the End of Turkey-in-Europe brings together a wide array of eyewitness accounts to provide unprecedented detail on the plight of Muslims during the Russo-Ottoman war of 1877-78 when massacres, rapes, and the looting and burning of their villages led hundreds of thousands of Muslims to flee from Bulgaria into Turkey. The book explores the tensions between Muslims and Christians in the Balkans before 1877, the ethnic cleansing and migration that resulted, the subsequent refugee crisis in Istanbul, and the resettlement of refugees in Anatolia. Author William Holt seeks to understand why these events, clearly important in Turkish history, are so little known in Turkey today. In crisp and engaging prose, he provides a compelling narrative and insightful analysis about human suffering and social memory"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Holt, William H., 1979- Balkan reconquista and the end of Turkey-in-Europe. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2019] 9781607816959

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Summary:	During the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, Russian troops, Cossack auxiliaries, and local Bulgarians participated in what today would be called ethnic cleansing. Tensions in the Balkans between Christians and Muslims ended in disaster when hundreds of thousands of Muslims were massacred, raped, and forced to flee from Bulgaria to Turkey as their villages were sacked and their homes destroyed.<br> <br> In this book, William H. Holt tells the story of a people and moment in time that has largely been neglected in modern Turkish and Balkan memory. Holt uncovers the reasons for this mass forgetting, finding context both within the development of the modern Turkish state and the workings of collective memory. Bringing together a wide array of eyewitness accounts, the book provides unprecedented detail on the plight of the Muslim refugees in their flight from Bulgaria, in Istanbul, and in their resettlement in Anatolia. In crisp, clear, and engaging prose, Holt offers an insightful analysis of human suffering and social memory.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references index.
ISBN:	1607816962 9781607816966 9781607816959