Americans at War with the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary Force in the Middle East

✍ Scribed by Eric Covey

Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 306
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

We live an age of proxy warfare across the Middle East, and of mercenary armies operating across Africa and on the fringes of Europe. America’s current foreign policy, or at least its representation in the media, seems to suggest there has been a deep and

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Memory and Exceptionalism at the Battle of Derna, 1805
2. Sovereign Equality among Men and Nations, 1815–28
3. Literary Mercenaries in Istanbul, 1831–53
4. The Monstrous Geography of Central Africa,1874–75
5. Mercenary Diplomacy on the Nile, 1869–82
Bibliography
Notes
Index

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