Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
    Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
    Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
    Ebook435 pages10 hours

    Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya

    By Matthew H. Ellis

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStanford University Press
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781503605572
    Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya

    Related to Desert Borderland

    Related ebooks

    Middle Eastern History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Made in Iraq

      Mar 25, 2021

      People have been making games in Iraq for thousands of years. A popular pastime in ancient Mesopotamia – a region that enclosed much of modern-day Iraq and Kuwait together with parts of Syria and Turkey – was a strategy game in which players raced to

      8 min read

    • Article

      Tracing The Origin Of The Four-legged Serpent In SA Rock Art

      Sep 21, 2020

      In 1987, the former Xhosa homeland of Ciskei launched a series of first-day cover stamps and postcards depicting a giant mythical snake in the Keiskamma River. The malevolent snake or inabulele formed part of the ‘The Story of Sikulume’, recorded by

      5 min read

    • Article

      Music In Rome

      Jan 23, 2023

      Music In Rome
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Story Of The People, By The People

      Nov 25, 2021

      THE ORIGINAL WHAT IS HISTORY? was the published version of the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered by E.H. Carr at the University of Cambridge in early 1961. It was available in a slim Penguin version in 1977 when I prepared for the General

      4 min read

    • Article

      Announcing Our New Editors

      Aug 30, 2018

      Announcing Our New Editors
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Global Education

      Jan 23, 2020

      What was life like as a history student in Switzerland? I wasn’t exactly a model school student – I spent a great deal of time in detention, so when I announced my decision to go to university, my family and friends found it rather amusing. But once

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Boat We Are Building

      Aug 15, 2018

      The Boat We Are Building
      8 min read

    • Article

      Fighting to Write Between Two Languages

      Apr 4, 2018

      1. Growing up, I developed my Spanish as a form of discipline. Spanish belonged at home, and English belonged at school. Only when my sister and I spoke did our bilingual conversation find itself walking in trepidation across the bridge we had built

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Shobha Rao

      Dec 4, 2018

      My reading choices this year were far more focused than they have ever been—rage has a way of focusing you, as does getting the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School. I spent most of the year reading in preparation for my course, “Traditi

      2 min read

    • Article

      Come Together

      Apr 8, 2021

      Come Together
      5 min read

    • Article

      History Lesson: Scholars Take Aim At Racist Views Of Middle Ages

      Sep 12, 2018

      From black military leader Saint Maurice to Arab influences in early Spain, the historical record is helping medieval scholars reclaim an era from a false narrative. Multicultural societies, they say, predate not only the civil rights era, but the Re

      3 min read

    • Article

      Burn, The Beloved University

      Mar 1, 2023

      Burn, The Beloved University
      4 min read

    • Article

      Philologist Irene Vallejo: ‘Alexander The Great’s Library Was The First Step Towards The Internet’

      Nov 5, 2022

      Born in 1979, Irene Vallejo is a Spanish writer, historian and philologist, and a regular columnist in the newspaper El País. She had written several books, including novels, essays and children’s books before she published El infinito en un junco (I

      4 min read

    • Article

      Kanishk Tharoor on Writing Outside of Western Traditions

      Mar 16, 2017

      For years I knew Kanishk Tharoor primarily as the author of thoughtful essays about history, in the broadest sense: not just what happened in the past but also how humans have explored the past, made sense of the past, contested the past. So when I s

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Desert Borderland

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Desert Borderland - Matthew H. Ellis

      Qabook_preview_excerpt.html}IG_qa@)ڸȤHdP5EE+} :Pu>SM@?_2޳# %ffٳ|o϶׬nYcS^/]}_|g⡫J)]Onܼ]wŰŃavU~rͲz66ee<+TUѕ؄.2˶غnE˾yQ]1k]1trcxn?aĬ_ ]۔ ÿ]5ո,uݴCh;ct~Cdť+ }?]gT̓Gmםn˕|Y7٧K Ēw~>nR\c/wܼU\bŝOoƇO7n.-vD:?[ev Ɩ=4|ݿ>hf=~rOK+D—Ͻ?̊/\'?|G_lB` _n9%}rqL[?x}ܐ.ѣŇn֍O𿛷ևQtb(܅++7|0l|P-q.2}Ydsg=go"HOן}>Ͼ輈eATdO>f dCqz=uu ]v1[_lˢ >V4'@8΋8ͼ q 7@UwnD2c.['KB/YT8Y{ jVeELv ]O6m$)Fqz̮*'@90dq޴_k0*rؗi^HB| VUek."o7 U/}.{_u\,m :r 4Yyqߝ`8=E4nhkoN/Fboc5PWôCL`K}|\P8Ȫj =vЙ۸n`Ba״B\+3AJ뽂 ~ uca֗gDWą'y/s=H6sϜp Fs@mU^l+>ڞ\CB*\ fhr9< @mf-^`#Ja@)C 'XL؝{<8O }/ۚZՂ&X]/ U c hBf?*bmln'8$l[<ŷXQ.uծ|ChߛEߓUk-a^ܖ_Y(r47kܪE'طVm/.U=3 Ů8YT9maT`"(s6J؇5Puf)o`%.>owxމua_;'+'Y/`֟#M/2/f P?h@DM k`Ʈ,ڹ1}vi6Pp/huh^ڈ'$ͻ-M7,\4,w/RD+*GйT9 V[wn)W!2q7!.čQ2<yIDFN|ܮ)דٸ/8pxےO^!mjֈKOJ1u׫]4B0v n,8 }K/Wc;qt M9~7a;x*a:_̃՗H9ε*y'#NG11#@ʻur|,/UCZL"їRv)<@X.MHeB#MrCVs>t DJHWj2d-OzEf/7tU&\k KZلVvUי.Hc='x(b oii/bYx} 2y?x#򛻼ME&ЂJ=NyXKhS [ʪ!bJz6] - ԈX9N`Qg 0=§4{?굶R p+I|:y^# X4*5.څDr$:dSJ3>֢ed-NNxZmٙ>{}_Fv~QzZmqg?0 W~ՔP/R6a*g-$|pҩn?HeUvs f$CR`8q~;yR.̚*5{lD,FXR"ecBqK7%K ͏?."R#-^\.F Ǔ͸!-KjWl^y'hM?jx }Y +'A=6X'İ=-uokR `{=43@,/Yt^HQƨpm52 r9w7Breݸ)i5ᰁMB=ޒ825 ~:iR*O^7S}vgQIu_u,jY|bjLQ1p$!zx5yU_˿pyoE9+/^ ?֍ý?bROV5o-; f @ѯ{4d@ #R[B5?C)~ Ò 4q(jP X&,~)YP$Hznەp m"RM'sPФq+s\Fpw`L>hF~ҕ[2YqVs)Ef  w,J&g~P/R1ZD ,%d&C"-SF.tu?eG#EńaM[0g*ixqc ) ^q1y-΅.[b9vXdY` enA러;"XѫP *A׵Ė&@X+6@ܲs(Z !x,4ޘ,#wet!]G81'I3jI?#L3YA'`N*+7w?X(BPz}G5!f]  7` $ ȑ~o]¾bdS P Ԍ}(DZcpÔ}In4SM:#P8 d{yDlIz}n0,f4r, AՊR7ћ_zھxkF5&#z(B֠wxk K4Jc\}&GHu[M Fc-4Xdn%Uv߹,8=„p*ʳ@`e%4A,S4@pw.L"+Hzo-(1˨쩊M#x@@+C!(Xkv.j@vy^n+=z R[isBo{>_ִ 4 p a:oӫ(V)"hV^gl,. j[[k[)|s޽io73#d&p]p 9oԱgg%}ش% Z#mu)=155* .X>3 27&I4 ƠÁbM͕ y~!U:#.JZ'OnK4R_w|?h0U,a3,0RиC[xvW|@v$<:kh4<h1d mOֳXKi@pǍuj̋F\U^rϟS+rɸ$QMAҴEY!{VzRV׾,h긇 Z5Sɔl/s1IG3X,ӄx=vS9-v l}cvw'D5g*s> 0ifҮDDPn'>.z)r׻ݰudoCoRo w)oC+crJףȓk^XcJb{bP KVQHg!Xjs%2bqi$`I.wD9qj e7 03nD;"-_ L=D~7=)rzF1Z df(VsRͲkNfd:[a%<G" }ʩֵܲ`FҶD>ּW-#_ئqɂH5hqV;@(Y!H!G器Bk\LڦJtU KEF &nϩ(0\?>VqoM"Gf+ Bȫ R'-Xnj/a5D=TDHAbuG@/e{Dú[9L J }JHXK(poGE^IH 3aL CEӁQ)R< 2;!)&t/mG9fMcVvaBs*6SRgTtt.LpӾv]Y׀lnw˧wOOƀؤ?/` VM#?9^@#c͔=NbbnL8fF8b*y<)5&KlHhb@LIcK`oG[WՂH//kIk)-ko4#cd[/JKBIdIHbzʋ<{8[K'.J0ɉ@\}~ &N D,:?d.~9sF')J`("8|Ȏ+:#IPZt5,4)tzJ5`eI (vo%gvY&æגPR7a^N>c3P(cOf$%_.i9˻Rf2ŸzͥRї f '-KehUWYzYZʉ4C!6jV<@JV$XfgG?v̒SHȌfTs%н[^,z%gV4\6I˩+.U~|Őa\8 Ups<.#DAX` HaƉ2 yף6L _B':_k ־ŘU~(M*ez)Jۄ)a#B &v˥ zOV,S*oƫ 6 cHEْ}֝ɉU .'@y9[5BCrGc4sr3դKU3)Ж,6eѯ[wQ<*ImFr^Z&x2CrD E߃od6mT$'bE(a.Hoّ%tJyV>v&[Jʂk]]jB*4_3s(4&/G 60 W7q"& b\jwŽOR^{Q\C15 T˕l Єe:㢘keu Ŗo5)r*VP?Bx# N .`<=@HG L̠N@;)z}.R "r%hV $NuC`جji&R']V"1@0Umr6)P, +S:f~at,2B* - \] \)znff,6aXQL!ds8"f$-}H2DA/`|ycʢh7y2GHD/14#X-S"RcFGSc/@I 93Tieu Pf]y@0FN8z\LT,M~B t=?4:/pZʇjU3feFŶ@E$hx|ZꌓFfـFu,qlВ[Ӕ)uҫ01Ip({\A[~ͦ>^7J+:>;3W_,] :aD]dG 8]5ΘTtuUO]wBzU51<2< !t |SA V3i0m ɸ \m/9 no=n eWKG I\xZyy: h.ԛy`S%81?0=`f \׎ڀ]%*$>'՚O`CV$U$pU6V,ƛ;r m"/6&|AJGUKܥ, Z854ֈ'byoݤ/ݹt Sy:q= e!Wװ|(^WJC"&~mśP2%wj|$(ߒE Ml쏖:v7)6ו%mj$[ ylL;+bi[ _~5wh~ݶQj=/]'$HR1mPzW[O^"8Bq,g8GV8D0UMrf_h2CjJנ bu,n{MF ^ EmTV1R諈#(7idLGE֤0BE>{e4f$<Y>& `V"Qeؼ6Ai7CvDi4I^9Xr'sR"&崯b4JI9SU|xk,+=+֮n <$Q36xaZm] ,ש6J~6=1I%sŰi=vö N-cG7̭7qOVE_mK_qՃ_twr?%rUldNe>.PGѤڇ$p+׼%0uld(il-*'eJZ.5gCVy) d` }g.E_Dg4MVh>ՐFY`!c#5YΒG}W);U/¬E(񤎺g.͜:90(rvhrDZ,3ᘬUZ?p)AG l>HZ$n~W5^0'453+n{/l> bmK V 8,o+E 3}h$~%/5Nn-(^Wq8"8ACxdcf6&8:dj_k?d?2W< G53|Y)~yZU+3fY^rC3~Q#ϡ&r|ooANZ*_5uf˅C,CRynxegZsE"I1h79&E,J3\, 8qV^j@t-٬X-kT, wZxt*v0V6 $P%,6mɊ5"{zx\qp+2Q5MȨV酫&_>@L\;.zL=Q)K(|Ίm3 2pynd$I0GqH9=Ԓ+]^'ʻǞ,*ߘ]^ZgοfqZ8lԌ l+BgQŧ&Z?<'+~ mmLò_jTF^mʀ۲\j"⦷u,y[1tx{gW*3TCp>i;u6 ӑ~A& ﺼ^\y 2ew$S+dpfWvRT :Wgkmo>C+ØDɊ &jf+t`.MFs6G` Wn1emjS]ДTiBgb:Fk 'filۛze\8=nJX"Zaw|K{2'3*3.ihdǡ`fipEHNቁ'6d=}|-_ PR(/S$(dSMX.%oKc\) {/1 #^.|nלuvMYRd2?moֵɜ߾y''n)-&G, eB-EI6b5bX]2͐դcjcʯ,NECWL)rXOr*L#ˡ&vUaש~FS:>ߝ:ROAVCG J4B^+߷&R^ر`X1\_C*%Q~qe6$R*3I[ ‘iaȗ[,rYV;ftbc(hW6ABW(2]n0M`nRڰhab\cLJfO'YXh/IX 4FZ!kWWx,h`bTHwDb6d!.efOQ*QפzQn2~G͏k>TQ"UKHA,6iz)f뭬6U{M0PDF1|6T08"4Ohy<Ѐl4Kjbc=%ÆUQh Ac<” ZcI{u{i9Y*`H0}RCKZiYwd,Ѣ
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1