| Description |
1 online resource (418 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2021). |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Subject |
Middle East -- History -- 19th century.
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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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Great powers.
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Middle East -- Foreign relations.
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Civil war. (OCoLC)fst00862883
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Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
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Great powers. (OCoLC)fst00947048
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Security, International. (OCoLC)fst01110895
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ozavci, Ozan Dangerous Gifts Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2021 9780198852964 |
| ISBN |
9780192595904 electronic book |
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0192595903 electronic book |
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9780191888441 electronic book |
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0191888443 electronic book |
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0198852967 |
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9780198852964 |
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