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The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire : industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle East / Murat Özyüksel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Özyüksel, Murat, author.
- Series:
- Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 47.
- Library of Ottoman studies ; 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Germany--History--20th century.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Turkey--History.
- Germany--Relations--Middle East.
- Germany.
- Middle East--Relations--Germany.
- Middle East.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits. The greatest imperial dream of all was to connect the might of Europe to the potential riches of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. In 1903 Imperial Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, began to construct a railway which would connect Berlin to the Ottoman city of Baghdad, and project German power all the way to the Persian Gulf. The Ottoman Emperor, Abdul Hamid II, meanwhile, saw the railway as a means to bolster crumbling Ottoman control of Arabia. Using new Ottoman Turkish sources, Murat Ozyuksel shows how the Berlin-Baghdad railway became a symbol of both rising European power and declining Ottoman fortunes. It marks a new and important contribution to our understanding of the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I, and will be essential reading for students of empire, Industrial History and Ottoman Studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Notes:
- Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350988491
- 1350988499
- 9781786721624
- 1786721627
- OCLC:
- 962752227
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