The Ottoman scramble for Africa : empire and diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minawi, Mostafa, 1974- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany).

Berlin West Africa Conference.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Turkey--Foreign relations--1878-1909.

Turkey.

Turkey--Foreign relations--Europe.

Europe--Foreign relations--Turkey.

Europe.

Africa--Colonization--History--19th century.

Africa.

Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)--Colonization--History--19th century.

Hejaz (Saudi Arabia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford California Stanford University Press 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the reader from Istanbul to Berlin, from Benghazi to Lake Chad Basin to the Hijaz, and then back to Istanbul. It turns the spotlight on the Ottoman Empire's expansionist strategies in Africa and its increasingly vulnerable African and Arabian frontiers. Drawing on previously untapped Ottoman archival evidence, Mostafa Minawi examines how the Ottoman participation in the Conference of Berlin and involvement in an aggressive competition for colonial possessions in Africa were part of a self-reimagining of this once powerful global empire. In so doing, Minawi redefines the parameters of agency in late-nineteenth-century colonialism to include the Ottoman Empire and turns the typical framework of a European colonizer and a non-European colonized on its head. Most importantly, Minawi offers a radical revision of nineteenth-century Middle East history by providing a counternarrative to the "Sick Man of Europe" trope, challenging the idea that the Ottomans were passive observers of the great European powers' negotiations over solutions to the so-called Eastern Question.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Old Empire, New Empire

1. Ottoman Libya, the Eastern Sahara, and the Central African Kingdoms

2. The Legal Production of Ottoman Colonial Africa

3. The Diplomatic Fight for Ottoman Africa

4. Resistance and Fortification, 1894–1899

5. Transimperial Strategies for an Intercontinental Empire

6. The Local Meets the Global on an Imperial Frontier

Conclusion: The Blinding Teleology of Failure

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804799294

0804799296

OCLC:

1198931477