Özyüksel, Murat, <br/><br/>
The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire :  modernity, industrialisation and Ottoman decline / 
Murat Özyüksel ; translated from Turkish by Sezin Tekin. 
 - 300 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, maps ;  23 cm. 
 - Library of Ottoman studies ;  39 .
 - Library of Ottoman studies ;  v. 39. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-289) and index. 
<br/><br/> Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East railways were no less important, and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780763644 1780763646 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Hejaz Railway--History.<br/>Hejaz Railway.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1878-1918 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Railroads--History.--Saudi Arabia<br/>Eisenbahn<br/>Railroads.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkey--History--1878-1909.<br/>Turkey--History--Mehmed V, 1909-1918.<br/>Osmanisches Reich<br/>Hedschasbahn<br/>Saudi Arabia.<br/>Turkey.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Hejaz Railway Railroads  Syria Railroads  Saudia Arabia 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HE3380.3.Z8  / .H45613 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>385.09538