Guerra all'Impero, guerra ai cristiani: le radici della dissoluzione dell'Impero ottomano

Historiography has often described the dissolution of the vast Ottoman empire as consequences of the First World War and as a result of the peace treaties. This approach, however, does not consider the profound processes that affected the Ottoman state and society between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Geopolitical changes, the transformations of society and the reforms of the state were at the origin of changes destined to modify above all the delicate balances of a plural society, founded on a complex cohabitative dynamic. Ottoman pluralism and its crisis therefore represents not simply a descriptive category, but an important key to understanding the crisis and dissolution of a secular empire.