Dangerous gifts : : imperialism, security, and civil wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 / / Özan Ozavcı.

• Superior document: Oxford scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Özavcı, Hilmi Ozan,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 pages) :; illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).
• Notes: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

'Dangerous Gifts' is a text about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Historicizing the Eastern Question -- Silence, Civil Wars, and Lives -- PART I: AVANT LE MOT -- 1: Crossing the Mediterranean -- Defining the 'Eastern Question' -- France and the Ottoman Empire -- Preparation for the Egyptian Expedition -- 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars -- The Circle of Justice -- The Sultan's Bafflement -- The Wrecked Victory -- 3: The Chase in the Desert: Empires and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812 -- Ottoman Egypt before the Eastern Question -- Useful Allies, Dangerous Enemies -- The Tripartite Civil War -- PART II: THE INVENTION OF THE EASTERN QUESTION -- 4: A New Era?: The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World -- The Eastern Question in the 1810s -- A 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Navarino 1827 -- 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul, and the Civil War of 1832-1833 -- Hüsrev and Mehmed Ali -- 'The Civil War of Islamism' -- 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant -- The Russian Intervention: 'We Have Been Sick, You the Medicines' -- Preaching to the Winds: The Disconcert of Europe and the Diplomatic Impasse -- 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilization, Commerce, and Reform -- Civilization -- Commerce and Security: A Capo d'Opera? -- 'We Are Still Called Barbarians!' -- 8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention -- The Quadruple Alliance and France -- The 1840 Intervention -- PART III: THE MOUNTAIN -- 9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840 -- The Land of the Muqatadjis -- When the Egyptians Came -- 10: The Age of the Eastern Question -- 'The Old Days Have Passed': The Civil War of 1841 and its Aftermath -- The Racing Clouds: The Stand-Off and the Civil War of 1845.

11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon -- The Crimean War and a Perilous Peace -- Anno 1860: The Civil War in Mount Lebanon -- 12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question? -- Responsibility Towards Humanity: Thouvenel's Démarche -- Against Intervention: Propaganda and Diplomacy -- 13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria -- Reluctant Imperialists -- Securing Hearts: Relief and Reparations -- The Scapegoats? Retributive Justice and Règlement Organique -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Archives and Frequently Cited Primary Sources -- Periodicals -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.