Sea of troubles
the European conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the origins of the First World War, c. 1750-1918
- ISBN: 9780863569500
- Editorial: Saqi Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 384
- Idiomas: Inglés
In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. However, by the end of the First World War, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, its territories occupied by European states.
In Sea of Troubles, Ian Rutledge reveals how the Mediterranean – the fault line between Europe and Islam – became the most important centre of European imperialist rivalry. Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia all wrestled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of this Islamic region. As rivalries intensified, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards war.
This masterful, richly detailed account illuminates over three centuries of European imperialism in the Islamic Mediterranean. Sea of Troubles reveals the chain reaction of conquest and violence that culminated in the First World War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Introduction
PART ONE c.1750 - c.1815
Chapter 1: The Islamic and Christian Worlds of the Eighteenth Century Mediterranean
Chapter 2: The Ottoman 'Economic Mind': Innovation, Industry and Trade
Chapter 3: The State, land and taxation: the fiscal crisis of the Ottoman system
Chapter 4: At the Gateway to the Mediterranean: Britain and the 'Empire' of Morocco
Chapter 5: The Ottoman Regencies and the Barbary Corsairs
Chapter 6: The Russians in the Mediterranean
Chapter 7: Ottoman Egypt: the Empire Fraying at the Edges
Chapter 8: A Spanish Disaster
Chapter 9: 'Liberating the Egyptians': the Origins of French Republican Imperialism
Chapter 10: The French in Egypt: from Military Victory to Colonial failure
Chapter 11: The Troubled beginings of Britain's 'Blue-Water Empire'
PART TWO c.1815 - c.1870
Chapter 12: The Beginning of the end for the Ottoman Regencies
Chapter 13: The Multiple crises of Mahmud II
Chapter 14: The French Invasion of Algiers and the growth of the Resistance, 1830-36.
Chapter 15: Saving the Sultans: the emergence of inter-imperialist rivalry
Chapter 16: Algerie Francaise
Chapter 17: Inter-imperialist Rivalry: Proxy War and Real War
Chapter 18: France's Second Imperial Venture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chapter 19: The Industrialised and the Non-Industrialised
PART THREE c.1870 - c.1895
Chapter 20: The Age of the Rentiers.
Chapter 21: The 'Great Eastern Crisis', 1875-78
Chapter 22: Tunisia and Egypt, 1981-82: the Bailiffs arrive
Chapter 23: The slow death of the 'Empire' of Morocco
PART FOUR c.1895 - c.1918
Chapter 24: Imperialist Realignment, Colonialist Deals, New Imperialists
Chapter 25: Imperialism on the Northern Shore: Austria-Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Chapter 26: The French and Spanish take Morocco, 1909-12
Chapter 27: The Forgotten War: the Italian invasion of Libya, 1911-12
Chapter 28: Unexpected resistance: the Arabs and Turks fight back
Chapter 29: 'Playing the Balkan Card': From Imperialism to World War
Chapter 30: From World War to Imperialism
Appendices A, B, C and D
Note on Transliteration and geographical names Glossary
