Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922

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Darwin Press, 1995 - Social Science - 368 pages
Death and Exile is the history of the deportation and death of millions of Muslims in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from areas that have remained centers of conflict - the Balkans, the Middle East, and what was the Soviet Union - and shows how these ethnic and religious conflicts developed. The history of the expansion of the Russian Empire and creation of new nations in the Balkans has traditionally been told from the standpoint of the Christian nations that were carved from the Ottoman Empire. Death and Exile tells the story from the position of the Turks and other Muslims who suffered death and exile as a result of imperialism, nationalism, and ethnic conflict. Death and Exile radically changes our view of the history of the peoples of the Middle East and the Balkans. It presents a new framework for understanding conflicts that continue today.

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Ottoman Europe and Anatolia in 1800
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Ottoman Europe in 1800
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Justin McCarthy, Professor of History at the University of Louisville, is a historian and demographer who has written extensively on the peoples of the Balkans and the Middle East.

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