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The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire
Murat Özyüksel
其他書名
Industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle East
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016-08-30
主題Transportation / Railroads / GeneralHistory / Social History
ISBN17867316229781786731623
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2-mKDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.