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Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire - US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (Paperback)
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Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire - US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (Paperback)
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Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of
mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the United
States and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century.
Mercenaries are often treated as historical footnotes, yet their
encounters with the Ottoman world contributed to US culture and the
impressions they left behind continue to influence US approaches to
Africa and the Middle East. The book's analysis of these mercenary
encounters and their legacies begins with the Battle of Derna in
1805-in which the US flag was raised above a battlefield for the
first time outside of North America with the help of a mercenary
army-and concludes with the British occupation of Egypt in
1882-which was witnessed and criticized by many of the US Civil War
veterans who worked for the Egyptian government in the 1870s and
1880s. By focusing these mercenary encounters through the lenses of
memory, sovereignty, literature, geography, and diplomacy,
Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire reveals the ways in which
mercenary force, while marginal in terms of its frequency and
scope, produced important knowledge about the Ottoman world and
helped to establish the complicated relationship of intimacy and
mastery that exists between Americans in the United States and
people in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, South Sudan, and Turkey.
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