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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa - Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Paperback)
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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa - Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Paperback)
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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.
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