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Dangerous Gifts is a book about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Avant le mot
- 1: Crossing the Mediterranean
- 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars
- 3: The Chase in the Desert: Empire and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812
- Part II: The Invention of the Eastern Question
- 4: A New Era? The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World
- 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul and the Civil War of 1832-3
- 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant
- 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilisation, Commerce, and Reform
- 8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention
- Part III: The Mountain
- 9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840
- 10: The Age of the Eastern Question
- 11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon
- 12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question?
- 13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria
About the author
Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.
Summary
Dangerous Gifts is a book about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.
Additional text
This book is essential reading for students and general readers interested in imperial politics and Levantine history and certainly succeeds in meeting the goal Özavci sets out at the beginning: "to develop out of a fiendishly complex story a narrative that is both intelligible and captivating for readers".
