I wrote this article because the case of Yemen during the four decades before the beginning of World War I highlights an important aspect of the environmental history of the late Ottoman frontier that earlier scholarship has not addressed, namely the intersecti..
Thomas Kuehn
Thomas Kuehn is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. He has also taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Educated at Freiburg (Magister Artium 1996), Oxford (M.St. 1998), and New York University (PhD 2005), Thomas Kuehn specializes in the political, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey as well as in the comparative history of empire in the modern Middle East. His first book, titled Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference. Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1849-1919, was published by Brill in 2011. His recent publications include “Bringing the Imperial Back in: Reconsidering Governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923,” History Compass 19.8 (August 2021) and “‘We Know Nothing about Yemen!’ Ottoman Imperial Governance in Southwest Arabia and the Politics of Knowledge Production, 1872-1914,” Journal of Arabian Studies 8.1 (June 2018): 5-24. His current research explores the concepts and practices of Ottoman imperial governance during the final decades of the empire. He is completing a monograph titled Ottoman Yemen. A Connected History, 1830-1924.