001478902 000__ 04954nam\a22008055i\4500 001478902 001__ 1478902 001478902 003__ DE-B1597 001478902 005__ 20231026035002.0 001478902 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478902 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478902 008__ 230103t20122010mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478902 020__ $$a9780674058538 001478902 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674058538$$2doi 001478902 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)577689 001478902 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1248760243 001478902 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478902 0410_ $$aeng 001478902 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478902 072_7 $$aHIS055000$$2bisacsh 001478902 08204 $$a940.3/1$$222 001478902 1001_ $$aMcMeekin, Sean, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478902 24514 $$aThe Berlin-Baghdad Express :$$bThe Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power /$$cSean McMeekin. 001478902 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2012] 001478902 264_4 $$c©2010 001478902 300__ $$a1 online resource (496 p.) 001478902 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478902 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478902 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478902 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478902 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Maps -- $$tList of Abbreviations -- $$tA Note on Names and Translations -- $$tPrologue: The View from Haydarpasha -- $$tI The Vision -- $$tII The Prophet Armed -- $$tIII Adventures in German Jihad -- $$tIV Boomerang -- $$tEpilogue: The Strange Death of German Zionism and the Nazi-Muslim Connection -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tAcknowledgements -- $$tIndex 001478902 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478902 520__ $$aThe modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to avenge Turkey's hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspective of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many of the most consequential events of World War I-Turkey's entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution-are illuminated as never before. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended consequences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately wants, jihad begets an Islamic insurrection in Mecca, German sabotage plots upend the Tsar delivering Turkey from Russia's yoke, and German Zionism midwifes the Balfour Declaration. All along, the story is interwoven with the drama surrounding German efforts to complete the Berlin to Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East. 001478902 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478902 546__ $$aIn English. 001478902 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 001478902 650_0 $$aGeopolitics$$zGermany$$xHistory. 001478902 650_0 $$aJihad. 001478902 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1914-1918$$zIslamic countries. 001478902 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1914-1918$$zTurkey. 001478902 650_7 $$aHISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire.$$2bisacsh 001478902 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478902 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478902 852__ $$bebk 001478902 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674058538$$zOnline Access 001478902 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478902$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478902 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478902 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478902 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478902 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478902 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478902 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478902 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478902 980__ $$aBIB 001478902 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478902 982__ $$aEbook 001478902 983__ $$aOnline