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The Socio-Economic Picture and Political Situation of the Eastern Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s and 1840s (According to the English Diplomat James Brant)

Vardanyan, Sona · 2025

Uses the travelogues and consular reporting of the English diplomat James Brant to reconstruct the socio-economic and political situation of the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. Vardanyan draws out the demographic shifts working against the Armenian population and reads the power dynamics between Armenians and Kurds in the region.

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Fundamental Armenology, Issue 2(22) 2025, History (National Academy of Sciences of RA / All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies); ISSN 1829-4618
Year
2025
Language
English

Citation

Vardanyan, Sona 2025. The Socio-Economic Picture and Political Situation of the Eastern Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s and 1840s (According to the English Diplomat James Brant). Fundamental Armenology, Issue 2(22) 2025, History (National Academy of Sciences of RA / All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies); ISSN 1829-4618.

What this offers a reader

For students

A British diplomat's eyewitness reporting on Western Armenia two generations before the Genocide.

For academics

Uses British consular material; author is at the NAS RA Institute of Oriental Studies.

For the community

The demographic pressure on our provinces was already visible in the 1830s, to anyone who looked.

For a general reader

What an English diplomat saw in Western Armenia in the 1830s.

Topics

Ottoman eastern provincesJames BrantWestern ArmeniademographyArmeno-Kurdish relationsBritish consular sources

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