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The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire - Industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle East (Hardcover)
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The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire - Industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th
century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped
great commercial benefits. The greatest imperial dream of all was
to connect the might of Europe to the potential riches of the
Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. In 1903 Imperial Germany, under
Kaiser Wilhelm II, began to construct a railway which would connect
Berlin to the Ottoman city of Baghdad, and project German power all
the way to the Persian Gulf. The Ottoman Emperor, Abdul Hamid II,
meanwhile, saw the railway as a means to bolster crumbling Ottoman
control of Arabia. Using new Ottoman Turkish sources, Murat
Ozyuksel shows how the Berlin-Baghdad railway became a symbol of
both rising European power and declining Ottoman fortunes. It marks
a new and important contribution to our understanding of the
geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I, and will be
essential reading for students of empire, Industrial History and
Ottoman Studies.
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