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Desert Borderland

- The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya

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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 marginsΓÇöilluminating the little-known history of the EgyptianΓÇôLibyan borderlandΓÇöthe 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 westernΓÇöor Ottoman Libya''s easternΓÇödomains 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 "Egyptian" and "Libyan" territorial domains emergedΓÇöwhat would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9781503605008
  • Format:
  • Inbunden
  • Sidor:
  • 280
  • Utgiven:
  • 20. mars 2018
  • Mått:
  • 237x162x24 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 566 g.
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Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
Förväntad leverans: 20. november 2024

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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 marginsΓÇöilluminating the little-known history of the EgyptianΓÇôLibyan borderlandΓÇöthe 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 westernΓÇöor Ottoman Libya''s easternΓÇödomains 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 "Egyptian" and "Libyan" territorial domains emergedΓÇöwhat would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.

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