{"product_id":"9780755654468","title":"Paramilitary Violence in the Post-Ottoman Borderlands Pro-state Militias and Nation-Building, 1905-1949","description":"\u003ch1\u003eParamilitary Violence in the Post-Ottoman Borderlands\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePro-state Militias and Nation-Building, 1905-1949\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eÜmit Kurt | Spyros Tsoutsoumpis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Middle East \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis book examines the emergence, activities and legacies of pro-state paramilitarism in the late and post-Ottoman borderlands during the era of the European civil war (1905-1949). This period was marked by profound violence and acute ethno-political transformation spurred on by the decline and eventual fall of the Ottoman empire and the emergence of a wide array of national and transnational political projects variably shaped by ethnic nationalism, fascism, and socialism. The chapters in this book examine the backstories, trajectories and activities of those who fought in the name of the various ethno-statal agendas, paramilitaries, gang leaders, bandits, and other pro-state actors, across the periphery of the empire and including understudied areas such as Kosovo, Montenegro, North-Western Greece. The book reveals the organization, patterns and logic of ethnic victimization, and the impact of ethnic and paramilitary mobilization in the governance structures and political institutions on the societies at the receiving end of violence. This approach offers new insights into the motivations of pro-state armed actors and challenges state-centric narratives on the history and legacy of nation-building, violence and paramilitary mobilization in the embattled borderlands of the Balkans, the Caucasus and Anatolia.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpyros Tsoutsoumpis \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Peoples Armies, a History of the Greek resistance during the Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eÜmit Kurt\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in History, University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Armenians of Aintab, The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province\u003c\/i\u003e (2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eI.B. Tauris\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780755654468\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944594210956,"sku":"9780755654468","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_909ce3ed-86ce-4330-a7c6-8323f5ce6079.jpg?v=1786035573","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780755654468","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}