Empire Unbound - France and the Muslim Mediterranean, 1880-1918

Empire Unbound argues that European empires were not the bounded, stable entities that imperialists imagined. Gavin Murray-Miller demonstrates that the era of 'new imperialism' which arose in the late 19th century fostered connections and synergies between regional powers that influenced the trajectories of imperial states in fundamental ways.

List of contents

• Introduction: France, Empire, and The Muslim Mediterranean


• 1: Power Politics and The Imperial Mediterranean


• 2: Territorialization and Mobility in The Mediterranean


• 3: Pan-Islamism and Ottoman Imperialism


• 4: Paris, A Trans-Imperial Metropole


• 5: Fragile Empires


• 6: Imagining French North Africa


• 7: Trans-Imperial Islam in The Crucible of War


• 8: Imperial Entanglements and The Making of The Post-Ottoman Mediterranean


• Conclusion: Entangled Histories and Fractured Pasts

About the author

Gavin Murray-Miller is a senior lecturer in modern history at Cardiff University. He is the author of two books focused on European revolutions and French colonialism. In the past, he has held fellowships from the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) in Mainz, Germany, the École normale supérieure in Paris, and the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN) in Moscow. In 2021, he was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship carried out at the Universität Leipzig.

Summary

Empire Unbound argues that European empires were not the bounded, stable entities that imperialists imagined. Gavin Murray-Miller demonstrates that the era of 'new imperialism' which arose in the late 19th century fostered connections and synergies between regional powers that influenced the trajectories of imperial states in fundamental ways.

Additional text

In Empire Unbound, Gavin Murray-Miller provides a fresh perspective on France's efforts to solidify and expand their Mediterranean empire from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the end of the First World War.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Murray-Miller, Gavin (Senior Lecturer in Modern Hi Murray-Miller, Murray-Miller Gavin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780192863119
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286311-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Mediterranean countries, Islamic countries, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General