The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power /
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The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey's hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I -- Turkey's entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution -- are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia's yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East. - Publisher.
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"First published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd. 2010"--T.p. verso.
Digital copy is on the Internet Archive website. :
xv, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-[426]) and index. :
9780674057395 (cloth : alk. paper)
Tell this in my memory : stories of enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire /
: Originally published: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. : 246 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789774166228
Proceedings of the International Conference on Egypt during the Ottoman Era, 26-30 November 2007, Cairo /
: At head of title : IRCICA, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture. Arab Republic of Egypt, Supreme Council of Culture. : 324 pages, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789290631989
Scramble for the past : a story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire,1753-1914 /
: "This book has been published on the occasion fo the exhibition "Scramble for the Past : A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914," at SALT Galata, Istanbul, November 22, 2011-March 11, 2012"-- Contraportraits Some contributions presented in translation from French, Greek or Turkish : 519 pages : illustrations (some color), facsims, color maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789944731270
Journey to the Sublime Porte : the Arabic memoir of a Sharifian agent's diplomatic mission to the Ottoman Imperial Court in the era of Suleyman the Magnificent ; the relevant text from Quṭb al-Dīn al...
: Translation of : Fawāʼid al-sanīyah fī al-riḥlah al-Madanīyah wa al-Rūmīyah. : xxiii, 367 pages : color map ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (3 3/16 in.). : 3899134419 : 0067-4931 ; : Nabil
Çanak : Late antique and medieval pottery and tiles in Mediterranean archaeological contexts : proceedings of the First International Symposium on Late Antique, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman Pottery...
: vii, 558 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789758071975