Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire and the Construction of the Baghdad Railway

by JonathanS.McMurray (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $119.90

  Challenging nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline, this study seeks to document the actual construction of the Baghdad railway rather than the rhetoric surrounding it. It reveals that the German involvement offered the Ottoman Empire a new lease of life.