The Ottoman Conscription System, 1844–1914
Title | The Ottoman Conscription System, 1844–1914 |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1998 |
Authors | Zurcher, Erik Jan |
Journal | International Review of Social History |
Volume | 43 |
Issue | 3 |
Pagination | 437–449 |
Date Published | 12/1998 |
Abstract | This article argues that the introduction of conscription in the Ottoman Empire of course was closely linked to the introduction of a European-style army, but it did not coincide with it. By the opening days of World War I, the empire had established a conscript army, but lacked the administrative, infrastructure, and manufacturing capacity to make full use of a mass military. Conscription was no more successful in facilitating nation-building because it allowed exemptions to so many. An army of Anatolian Muslim peasants, it looked forward to the Turkish nation-state established in Anatolia after the First World War, rather than back to a multinational imperial past. |
URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/ottoman-conscription-system-18441914/1086020302A263199BEEB062BF4C6874 |
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