Dangerous gifts : imperialism, security, and civil wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 / Özan Ozavcı.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özavcı, Hilmi Ozan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great powers.

Security, International--Middle East--History--19th century.

Security, International.

Civil war--Middle East--History--19th century.

Civil war.

Eastern question.

Middle East--History--19th century.

Middle East.

Middle East--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Dangerous Gifts' is a text about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.

Contents:

Cover

Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword

Contents

List of Figures and Maps

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Historicizing the Eastern Question

Silence, Civil Wars, and Lives

PART I: AVANT LE MOT

1: Crossing the Mediterranean

Defining the 'Eastern Question'

France and the Ottoman Empire

Preparation for the Egyptian Expedition

2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars

The Circle of Justice

The Sultan's Bafflement

The Wrecked Victory

3: The Chase in the Desert: Empires and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812

Ottoman Egypt before the Eastern Question

Useful Allies, Dangerous Enemies

The Tripartite Civil War

PART II: THE INVENTION OF THE EASTERN QUESTION

4: A New Era?: The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World

The Eastern Question in the 1810s

A 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Navarino 1827

5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul, and the Civil War of 1832-1833

Hüsrev and Mehmed Ali

'The Civil War of Islamism'

6: The Russian Peace in the Levant

The Russian Intervention: 'We Have Been Sick, You the Medicines'

Preaching to the Winds: The Disconcert of Europe and the Diplomatic Impasse

7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilization, Commerce, and Reform

Civilization

Commerce and Security: A Capo d'Opera?

'We Are Still Called Barbarians!'

8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention

The Quadruple Alliance and France

The 1840 Intervention

PART III: THE MOUNTAIN

9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840

The Land of the Muqatadjis

When the Egyptians Came

10: The Age of the Eastern Question

'The Old Days Have Passed': The Civil War of 1841 and its Aftermath

The Racing Clouds: The Stand-Off and the Civil War of 1845.

11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon

The Crimean War and a Perilous Peace

Anno 1860: The Civil War in Mount Lebanon

12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question?

Responsibility Towards Humanity: Thouvenel's Démarche

Against Intervention: Propaganda and Diplomacy

13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria

Reluctant Imperialists

Securing Hearts: Relief and Reparations

The Scapegoats? Retributive Justice and Règlement Organique

Epilogue

Select Bibliography

Archives and Frequently Cited Primary Sources

Periodicals

Published Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

"This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2021).

ISBN:

0-19-259591-1

0-19-188844-3

0-19-259590-3

OCLC:

1259594639