Desert Borderland (eBook)

The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya

Matthew H. Ellis (Autor)

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2018
280 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0557-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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-the book challenges prevailing notions of how Egypt and Libya were constituted as modern territorial nation-states.Matthew H. Ellis draws on a wide array of archival sources to reconstruct the multiple layers and meanings of territoriality in this desert borderland. Throughout the decades, a heightened awareness of the existence of distinctive Egyptian and Ottoman Libyan territorial spheres began to develop despite any clear-cut boundary markers or cartographic evidence. National territoriality was not simply imposed on Egypt's western or Ottoman Libya's eastern domains by centralizing state power. Rather, it developed only through a complex and multilayered process of negotiation with local groups motivated by their own local conceptions of space, sovereignty, and political belonging. By the early twentieth century, distinctive "e;Egyptian"e; and "e;Libyan"e; territorial domains emerged what would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.

Autor

Matthew H. Ellis is the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones, 4 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Bedouin • Borderlands • Cartography • Eastern Sahara • imperialism • Local identity • Nationalism • Sovereignty • State-Building • Territoriality
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-0557-4 / 1503605574
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0557-2 / 9781503605572