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Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Outline of book -- Theorizing the refugee in the context of modernity -- 1 Prelude to Disaster: Finance Capitalism and the Political Economy of Imperial Collapse -- Introduction -- Revisiting Ottoman economic relations -- Conclusion -- 2 Resettlement Regimes and Empire: The Politics of Caring for Ottoman Refugees -- Introduction -- Making sense of an Ottoman provisional modernity -- Conclusion -- 3 Traveling the Contours of an Ottoman Proximate World -- Introduction -- Retaining the Ottoman in exile outside the diaspora -- The Balkan crisis in a refugee/diasporic context: Romania and Bulgaria -- Foreign government investment in Ottoman émigrés -- Conclusion -- 4 Transitional Migrants: The Global Ottoman Refugee and Colonial Terror -- Introduction -- The Ottoman refugee and the world of plunder -- Trade, power, and the Ottoman opium dynasties -- Conclusion -- 5 Missionaries at the Imperial Ideological Edge -- Introduction -- Meclis-i Mesayih -- Forging trans-regional lines of resistance: Ottoman origin missionaries -- Ottoman internationalism -- Instruments of abstraction -- Conclusion: Perversion as conversion -- Conclusion -- Cocktail a la Turco: The end -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis unfolded. Often, these refugees of the Ottoman Empire - Christians, Muslims and Jews - found their way to new continents, forming an Ottoman diaspora that had a remarkable ability to reconstitute, and even expand, the ethnic, religious, and ideological diversity of their homelands. Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939 offers a unique study of a transitional period in world history experienced through these refugees living in the Middle East, the Americas, South-East Asia, East Africa and Europe. Isa Blumi explores the tensions emerging between those trying to preserve a world almost entirely destroyed by both the nation-state and global capitalism and the agents of the so-called Modern era.