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Author Minawi, Mostafa, 1974- author.

Title The Ottoman scramble for Africa : empire and diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz / Mostafa Minawi
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

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Contents Introduction : old empire, new empire -- Ottoman Libya, the eastern Sahara, and the central African kingdoms -- The legal production of Ottoman colonial Africa -- The diplomatic fight for Ottoman Africa -- Resistance and fortification, 1894-1899 -- Transimperial strategies for an intercontinental empire -- The local meets the global on an imperial frontier -- Conclusion : the blinding teleology of failure
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2016)
SUBJECT Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85354834
Berlin West Africa Conference fast
Subject Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Colonization
Diplomatic relations
Imperialism
SUBJECT Turkey -- Foreign relations -- 1878-1909. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2016000241
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138798
Europe -- Foreign relations -- Turkey. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045686
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century
Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century
Subject Africa
Europe
Saudi Arabia -- Hejaz
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016013794
ISBN 9780804799294
0804799296