Description
| Product ID: | 9780863569500 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Sea of Troubles |
| Subtitle: | The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War |
| Authors: | Author: Ian Rutledge |
| Page Count: | 576 |
| Subjects: | Military history, Military history, Naval forces and warfare, Naval forces & warfare |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Authoritative and compelling account of European imperialism in North Africa and the Levant, and of the fall of the Ottoman Empire. In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, and its territories occupied by European powers. Sea of Troubles is the definitive account of the European conquest of the Levant and North Africa over three centuries. Ian Rutledge reveals the intense imperial rivalry between six European powers - Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia - who all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of the Islamic Mediterranean. The competition between these states made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. Yet, as new contenders entered the contest, and as rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards the First World War. |
| Imprint Name: | Saqi Books |
| Publisher Name: | Saqi Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-17 |
