Sea of Troubles
Ian Rutledge
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
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. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers.Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three centuries. Ian Rutledge reveals the intense imperial rivalry between six European powers – Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia – who all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of the Islamic Mediterranean. The competition between these states made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. Yet, as new contenders entered the contest, and as rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards the First World War.Set against a background of intense imperial rivalry, Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa in the last three centuries
Kundenbewertungen
Mediterranean sea, colonialism, Fall of the Ottomans, France, Germany, Peter Frankopan, imperialism, western powers, WW1, Enemy on the Euphrates, military history, British Empire, The Silk Roads, Mediterranean coastline, Ottoman Empire, World War 1, Eugene Rogan, Turkey, Italy, Austria, First World War, The Arabs A History, naval history, European history