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Dangerous Gifts Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

Ozavci, Ozan
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198852964
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
786 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
418

Forfatter
Ozavci, Ozan

Biografisk notat

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.

Dangerous Gifts Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

Ozavci, Ozan
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk
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By integrating this security studies perspective within a well-known history, O¨&zavcı offers a provocative challenge to how scholars will read events in larger Europe after the Congress of Vienna. Drawing from research in many underused archives, O¨&zavcı provides a neatly organized, methodologically innovative account of the European Powers' emerging concerns as the Ottoman Empire transformed during its critical Tanzimat era ... this book will quickly become essential reading for graduate students in Middle Eastern studies and scholars of the Ottoman Empire.

I. Blumi, CHOICE

Ozavci's study combines a wealth of international archival research with methodological rigour. The central theme of the book, focusing on "security culture" among the Great Powers after the Congress of Vienna, is masterfully treated, and carefully crafted. This is a work that defines the state of the art in diplomatic history to date.

Selim Deringil, Lebanese American University

Ozan Ozavci's book is a successful tour de force and a pleasant read. It is an exhaustive and erudite research conducted in several archives, which remains accessible to non-specialist readers...Such inclusive, granular as well as multi-perspective analysis, should be a scholarly reference for historians and current international politics analysts too.

Davide Rodogno, Graduate Insitute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

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Dr. Ozavci has produced a wonderful example of the benefits of interdisciplinary scholarship. His impressive new book not only provides a wealth of insights into the evolution of the modern Ottoman state, but it proves innovative. By integrating a security studies perspective in a provocative manner, this book will quickly become essential reading to advanced graduate students in Middle Eastern studies and scholars of the Ottoman Empire more generally.

Isa Blumi, Institue for Turkish Studies, Stockholm University

Dangerous Gifts is a major achievement. It is an original and sophisticated account of the European Powers' interventions in Egypt, Greece and the Lebanon in the nineteenth century. It triumphantly demonstrates that these were fluid and dynamic international political crises, and reveals the agency of the Ottoman state in them in a way that previous accounts of the 'Eastern question' have been unable to do.

Jonathan Parry, University of Cambridge

This book is essential reading for students and general readers interested in imperial politics and Levantine history and certainly succeeds in meeting the goal Özavci sets out at the beginning: "to develop out of a fiendishly complex story a narrative that is both intelligible and captivating for readers".

The Oxford Middle East Review

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 established hitherto 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 security practices. 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 the experience 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 political and economic decisions were ultimately made through the filter of global imperial interests.
Les mer
Dangerous Gifts is a book about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.
Introduction Part I: Avant le mot 1: Crossing the Mediterranean 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars 3: The Chase in the Desert: Empire and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812 Part II: The Invention of the Eastern Question 4: A New Era? The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul and the Civil War of 1832-3 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilisation, Commerce, and Reform 8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention Part III: The Mountain 9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840 10: The Age of the Eastern Question 11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon 12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question? 13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria
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The first genealogical analysis of western interventionism in the Levant Foregrounds the agency of non-western actors Embeds western interventions in the Levant into the larger context of the Eastern Question Examines the Eastern Question with an innovative contrapuntal approach. Consults previously unexplored archival materials from the Middle East, the United States, Russia and Western Europe An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
Les mer
Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.
The first genealogical analysis of western interventionism in the Levant Foregrounds the agency of non-western actors Embeds western interventions in the Levant into the larger context of the Eastern Question Examines the Eastern Question with an innovative contrapuntal approach. Consults previously unexplored archival materials from the Middle East, the United States, Russia and Western Europe An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
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By integrating this security studies perspective within a well-known history, O¨&zavcı offers a provocative challenge to how scholars will read events in larger Europe after the Congress of Vienna. Drawing from research in many underused archives, O¨&zavcı provides a neatly organized, methodologically innovative account of the European Powers' emerging concerns as the Ottoman Empire transformed during its critical Tanzimat era ... this book will quickly become essential reading for graduate students in Middle Eastern studies and scholars of the Ottoman Empire.

I. Blumi, CHOICE

Ozavci's study combines a wealth of international archival research with methodological rigour. The central theme of the book, focusing on "security culture" among the Great Powers after the Congress of Vienna, is masterfully treated, and carefully crafted. This is a work that defines the state of the art in diplomatic history to date.

Selim Deringil, Lebanese American University

Ozan Ozavci's book is a successful tour de force and a pleasant read. It is an exhaustive and erudite research conducted in several archives, which remains accessible to non-specialist readers...Such inclusive, granular as well as multi-perspective analysis, should be a scholarly reference for historians and current international politics analysts too.

Davide Rodogno, Graduate Insitute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Se alle

Dr. Ozavci has produced a wonderful example of the benefits of interdisciplinary scholarship. His impressive new book not only provides a wealth of insights into the evolution of the modern Ottoman state, but it proves innovative. By integrating a security studies perspective in a provocative manner, this book will quickly become essential reading to advanced graduate students in Middle Eastern studies and scholars of the Ottoman Empire more generally.

Isa Blumi, Institue for Turkish Studies, Stockholm University

Dangerous Gifts is a major achievement. It is an original and sophisticated account of the European Powers' interventions in Egypt, Greece and the Lebanon in the nineteenth century. It triumphantly demonstrates that these were fluid and dynamic international political crises, and reveals the agency of the Ottoman state in them in a way that previous accounts of the 'Eastern question' have been unable to do.

Jonathan Parry, University of Cambridge

This book is essential reading for students and general readers interested in imperial politics and Levantine history and certainly succeeds in meeting the goal Özavci sets out at the beginning: "to develop out of a fiendishly complex story a narrative that is both intelligible and captivating for readers".

The Oxford Middle East Review

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 established hitherto 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 security practices. 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 the experience 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 political and economic decisions were ultimately made through the filter of global imperial interests.
Les mer
Dangerous Gifts is a book about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.
Introduction Part I: Avant le mot 1: Crossing the Mediterranean 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars 3: The Chase in the Desert: Empire and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812 Part II: The Invention of the Eastern Question 4: A New Era? The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul and the Civil War of 1832-3 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilisation, Commerce, and Reform 8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention Part III: The Mountain 9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840 10: The Age of the Eastern Question 11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon 12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question? 13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria
Les mer
The first genealogical analysis of western interventionism in the Levant Foregrounds the agency of non-western actors Embeds western interventions in the Levant into the larger context of the Eastern Question Examines the Eastern Question with an innovative contrapuntal approach. Consults previously unexplored archival materials from the Middle East, the United States, Russia and Western Europe An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
Les mer
Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.
The first genealogical analysis of western interventionism in the Levant Foregrounds the agency of non-western actors Embeds western interventions in the Levant into the larger context of the Eastern Question Examines the Eastern Question with an innovative contrapuntal approach. Consults previously unexplored archival materials from the Middle East, the United States, Russia and Western Europe An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198852964
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
786 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
418

Forfatter
Ozavci, Ozan

Biografisk notat

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.

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