Desert borderland : the making of modern Egypt and Libya / Matthew H. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Matthew H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Borderlands.

History.

Territory, National.

Boundaries.

Egypt--Boundaries--Libya--History.

Egypt.

Libya--Boundaries--Egypt--History.

Libya.

Territory, National--Egypt--History.

Territory, National--Libya--History.

Borderlands--Egypt--History.

Egypt--Politics and government--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Throughout the decades, a heightened awareness of the existence of distinctive Egyptian and Ottoman Libyan territorial spheres began to develop despite any clear-cut boundary markers or cartographic evidence. National territoriality was not simply imposed on Egypt's western-or Ottoman Libya's eastern-domains by centralizing state power. Rather, it developed only through a complex and multilayered process of negotiation with local groups motivated by their own local conceptions of space, sovereignty, and political belonging. By the early twentieth century, distinctive "Egyptian" and "Libyan" territorial domains emerged-what would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking territorial Egypt

Legal exceptionalism in Egypt's borderlands

Accommodating Egyptian sovereignty in Siwa

Abbas Hilmi II and the anatomy of a Siwan murder

Cultivating territorial sovereignty in the western desert

The limits of Ottoman sovereignty in the eastern Sahara

The emergence of Egypt's western border conflict

Conclusion : unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan border.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ellis, Matthew H. Desert borderland.

ISBN:

9781503605008

1503605000

OCLC:

999475201