The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin Jameson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 870
Release: 1923
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Author-title Catalog

Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1042
Release: 1963
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN:

The Outbreak of War

The Outbreak of War
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1926
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire

The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire
Author: Murat Özyüksel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1786731622

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.