Özyüksel, Murat, <br/><br/>
The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire :  industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle East / 
Murat Özyüksel. 
 - 312 pages :  map ;  23 cm. 
 - Library of Ottoman Studies  47 .
 - Library of Ottoman studies ;  v. 47. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-306) and index. 
<br/><br/> Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits. The greatest imperial dream of all was to connect the might of Europe to the potential riches of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. In 1903 Imperial Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, began to construct a railway which would connect Berlin to the Ottoman city of Baghdad, and project German power all the way to the Persian Gulf. The Ottoman Emperor, Abdul Hamid II, meanwhile, saw the railway as a means to bolster crumbling Ottoman control of Arabia. Using new Ottoman Turkish sources, Murat Ozyuksel shows how the Berlin-Baghdad railway became a symbol of both rising European power and declining Ottoman fortunes. It marks a new and important contribution to our understanding of the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I, and will be essential reading for students of empire, Industrial History and Ottoman Studies. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781780768823 1780768826 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017431913 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB603245  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>017694818  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1288-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Railroads--History--Germany--20th century.<br/>Railroads--History.--Turkey<br/>International relations.<br/>Railroads.<br/>Eisenbahnbau<br/>Imperialismus<br/>Industrialisierung<br/>Internationale Politik<br/>Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.<br/>Germany--Relations--Middle East.<br/>Middle East--Relations--Germany.<br/>Germany.<br/>Middle East.<br/>Turkey.<br/>Allemagne.<br/>Arabie.<br/>Berlin-Bagdad (ligne de chemin de fer)<br/>Empire ottoman.<br/>Moyen-Orient.<br/>Bagdadbahn<br/>Deutschland<br/>Osmanisches Reich
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HE3078  / .O99 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>385.09430904