The turn of the twentieth century witnessed the undoing of empires, followed by the making
of new nation-states. This process, if anywhere, manifested itself mostly in the frontiers of the�…

In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies,
contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and�…

Imagine an age of rogues marked by the clash of empires and a heightened level of
interstate competition that spawns one insurgent group after another; when isolated yet�…

Edited by Ramazan Hakkı �ztan (PhD.) and Alp Yenen (PhD.), Age of Rogues: Rebels,
Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires was published by Edinburgh�…

On July 15, 1928 the gendarmerie arrested 16 men in the small town of Paramithia in Epirus
northwestern Greece. They were charged with racketeering, murder, kidnap, extortion and�…

While much has been said about the roles played by the military technologies in the
consolidation of modern states and empires, we know very little about the effects of similar�…

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands examines how nationalism, belonging,
and violence have developed since the late 19th century in the borderlands of the Russian�…

Immediately following the armistice that ended the World War I in the Middle East, a small
group of “Young Turk” leaders, who had led the war-time ruling party of the Committee of�…

This contribution addresses the relationship between men of violence and the centres of
power in the late Ottoman Empire through a prosopographic study of Unionist komitacıs�…

The Habsburg dominions fell into the Austrian and Hungarian halves, which were united
only in the person of the sovereign and their common institutions which included, the�…