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1 online resource (xv, 401 pages ): color illustrations, maps |
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Cover -- Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Historicizing the Eastern Question -- Silence, Civil Wars, and Lives -- PART I: AVANT LE MOT -- 1: Crossing the Mediterranean -- Defining the 'Eastern Question' -- France and the Ottoman Empire -- Preparation for the Egyptian Expedition -- 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars -- The Circle of Justice -- The Sultan's Bafflement -- The Wrecked Victory |
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3: The Chase in the Desert: Empires and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812 -- Ottoman Egypt before the Eastern Question -- Useful Allies, Dangerous Enemies -- The Tripartite Civil War -- PART II: THE INVENTION OF THE EASTERN QUESTION -- 4: A New Era?: The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World -- The Eastern Question in the 1810s -- A 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Navarino 1827 -- 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul, and the Civil War of 1832-1833 -- Hüsrev and Mehmed Ali -- 'The Civil War of Islamism' -- 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant -- The Russian Intervention: 'We Have Been Sick, You the Medicines' |
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Preaching to the Winds: The Disconcert of Europe and the Diplomatic Impasse -- 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilization, Commerce, and Reform -- Civilization -- Commerce and Security: A Capo d'Opera? -- 'We Are Still Called Barbarians!' -- 8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention -- The Quadruple Alliance and France -- The 1840 Intervention -- PART III: THE MOUNTAIN -- 9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840 -- The Land of the Muqatadjis -- When the Egyptians Came -- 10: The Age of the Eastern Question |
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'The Old Days Have Passed': The Civil War of 1841 and its Aftermath -- The Racing Clouds: The Stand-Off and the Civil War of 1845 -- 11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon -- The Crimean War and a Perilous Peace -- Anno 1860: The Civil War in Mount Lebanon -- 12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question? -- Responsibility Towards Humanity: Thouvenel's Démarche -- Against Intervention: Propaganda and Diplomacy -- 13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria -- Reluctant Imperialists -- Securing Hearts: Relief and Reparations -- The Scapegoats? Retributive Justice and Règlement Organique -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Archives and Frequently Cited Primary Sources -- Periodicals -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Dangerous Gifts is a book about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant |
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From Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers have long assumed the responsibility to bring security in the Middle East. The past two centuries have witnessed their numerous military occupations to 'liberate', 'secure' and 'educate' local populations. They staged first 'humanitarian' interventions in history and establishedhitherto unseen international and local security institutions. Consulting fresh primary sources collected from some thirty archives in the Middle East, Russia, the United States, and Western Europe, Dangerous Gifts revisits the late eighteenth and nineteenth century origins of these imperial securitypractices. It explicates how it all began. Why did Great Power interventions in the Ottoman Levant tend to result in further turmoil and civil wars? Why has the region been embroiled in a paradox-an ever-increasing demand despite the increasing supply of security-ever since? It embeds this highly pertinent genealogical history into an innovative and captivating narrative around the Eastern Question, emancipating the latter from the monopoly of Great Power politics, and foregrounding theexperience of the Levantine actors. It explores the gradual yet still forceful opening up of the latter's economies to global free trade, the asymmetrical implementation of international law in their perspective, and the secondary importance attached to their threat perceptions in a world where politicaland economic decisions were ultimately made through the filter of global imperial interests |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 8, 2022) |
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Great powers.
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Security, International -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century
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Civil war -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century
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Civil war
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Diplomatic relations
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Great powers
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Security, International
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Middle East -- History -- 19th century
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Middle East -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090504
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192595904 |
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0192595903 |
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9780191888441 |
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0191888443 |
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