Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Note on Names and Spelling -- Introduction -- Confusion in the Cauldron: Some Notes on Ethno-Religious Groups, Local Powers and the Ottoman State in Diyarbekir Province, 1800-1870 -- Elite Encounters of a Violent Kind: Mili İbrahim Paşa, Ziya Gökalp and Political Struggle in Diyarbekir at the Turn of the 20th Century -- Diyarbekir and the Armenian Crisis of 1895 -- State, Tribe, Dynasty, and the Contest over Diyarbekir at the Turn of the 20th Century -- A "Peripheral" Approach to the 1908 Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Land Disputes in Peasant Petitions in Post-revolutionary Diyarbekir -- Some Notes on the Syriac Christians of Diyarbekir in the Late 19th Century: A Preliminary Investigation of Some Primary Sources -- Relations between Kurds and Syriacs and Assyrians in Late Ottoman Diyarbekir -- Disastrous Decade: Armenians and Kurds in the Young Turk Era, 1915-25 -- Annexes -- A. Provisional List of Non-Muslim Settlements in the Diyarbekir Vilayet Around 1900 -- B. Diyarbekir and the Armenian Crisis of 1895-The Fate of the Countryside -- C. Telegraphs from Diyarbekir and Pirinccizade Arif Effendi's Speech -- D. Family Tree of Ziya Gökalp -- E. British map of Diyarbekir and Surroundings, 1904 (FO 881/8362) -- Name and Subject Index -- Place Index -- Tribes (aşiret) Index.