Desert Borderland
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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 margins—illuminating the little-known history of the Egyptian–Libyan borderland—the 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 western—or Ottoman Libya's eastern—domains 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 emerged—what would ultimately become the modern nation-states of Egypt and Libya.
Title |
Desert Borderland : The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya / Matthew H. Ellis. |
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Publisher |
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press |
Creation Date |
[2020] |
Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018. Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. |
Content |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction. Rethinking Territorial Egypt -- 1. Legal Exceptionalism in Egypt’s Borderlands -- 2. Accommodating Egyptian Sovereignty in Siwa -- 3. ‘Abbas Hilmi II and the Anatomy of a Siwan Murder -- 4. Cultivating Territorial Sovereignty in the Western Desert -- 5. The Limits of Ottoman Sovereignty in the Eastern Sahara -- 6. The Emergence of Egypt’s Western Border Conflict -- Conclusion. Unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan Border -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Extent |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2018 |
National Library system number |
997010708929305171 |
MARC RECORDS
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- Territory, National Egypt History.
- Territory, National Libya History.
- Borderlands Egypt History.
- Border-lands
- Border regions
- Frontiers
- National territory
- Egypt Boundaries Libya History.
- Libya Boundaries Egypt History.
- Egypt Politics and government 19th century.
- Égypte
- Ägypten
- Egitto
- Egipet
- Egiptos
- Miṣr
- Southern Region (United Arab Republic)
- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic)
- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic)
- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic)
- Egipat
- Arab Republic of Egypt
- A.R.E.
- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt)
- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah
- Mitsrayim
- Egipt
- Ijiptʻŭ
- Misri
- Ancient Egypt
- Gouvernement royal égyptien
- جمهورية مصر العربية
- مِصر
- مَصر
- Maṣr
- Khēmi
- エジプト
- Ejiputo
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- Egypten
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- Lībiyā
- Jamāhīrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Lībīyah al-Shaʻbīyah al-Ishtirākīyah
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Jamahiriya arabe libyenne
- Libyen
- Libia
- Livii︠a︡
- Popular Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Libië
- Socialist People's Arab Jamahiriya
- Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Luv
- Libye
- Jamahiriya arabe libyenne populaire socialiste
- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Gran Jamahiriya araba libica socialista popolare
- SPLAJ
- Jamahiriya Arab Libyan Popular Socialist
- G.S.P.L.A.J.
- GSPLAJ
- Jamāhīrīyah al-ʻUẓmá
- Jamahiriya al-Arabiya al-Libiya al-Shabiya al-Ishtirakiya al-Uzma
- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Republic
- Grande Jamahiriya arabe populaire socialiste libyenne
- Mamlakah al-Lībīyah al-Muttaḥidah
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