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Desert borderland : the making of modern Egypt and Libya /

'Desert Borderland' investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins - illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian-Libyan borderland -...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Matthew H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : rethinking territorial Egypt
  • Legal exceptionalism in Egypt's borderlands
  • Accommodating Egyptian sovereignty in Siwa
  • Abbas Hilmi II and the anatomy of a Siwan murder
  • Cultivating territorial sovereignty in the western desert
  • The limits of Ottoman sovereignty in the eastern Sahara
  • The emergence of Egypt's western border conflict
  • Conclusion : unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan border.