Preface Introduction The German Discovery of the Ottoman Empire Early Trials and Conventional Wisdom, 1899-1908 The Young Turks and the Baghdad Railway, 1908-1914 The First World War and the Baghdad Railway, 1914-1918 Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index
Challenging nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline, this is the first study to document the actual railway construction rather than the rhetoric surrounding it.
Jonathan S. McMurray holds degrees in history, German, and religion and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
"[T]his is well researched and well written. It is the only comprehensive up-to-date history in English of a project...that was in many respects as important as the Suez Canal."-Dennis Showalter Department of History, Thayer Hall USMA West Point
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