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Houssine (Hrsg.) Alloul

To Kill a Sultan

A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905)

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This book explores an event described by The Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21st July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yildiz Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdulhamid II, the target of the attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that Armenian revolutionaries were behind the plot and several people were arrested and convicted, among them the Belgian anarchist Edward Joris. His incarceration sparked international reaction and created a diplomatic conflict. The assassination attempt f… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: De Smaele, Henk (Hrsg.) / Eldem, Edhem (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-48931-9
  • EAN: 9781137489319
  • Produktnummer: 19688290
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 498 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
  • Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 498

Über den Autor


Houssine Alloul holds a PhD in history and is currently a Research Associate at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he is also a member of Power in History: Centre for Political History (PoHis). His doctoral dissertation investigated the relations between Belgium and the Ottoman Empire, with a special focus on the intertwining of small power diplomacy, the global expansion of Belgian capital, and interculturality. His research interests include consular history, Orientalism(s), travel literature, modern finance capitalism, and Leopoldian colonialism. Edhem Eldem teaches history at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He concentrates on nineteenth-century Ottoman social and cultural history, with particular emphasis on westernization and relations with Europe. Following publications on funerary epigraphy, trade, banking, urban development, and Orientalism, his current research focuses on archaeology, photography, visual culture, and first-person narratives.Henk de Smaele teaches modern cultural history at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he is connected to the research unit Power in History: Centre for Political History (PoHis). His current research includes the modern history of gender and sexuality, as well as the history of relations between Europe and the Middle East.

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