TY - BOOK AU - Minawi,Mostafa TI - The Ottoman scramble for Africa: empire and diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz SN - 9780804795142 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - DR571 .M56 2016 U1 - 327.56009/034 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - Berlin West Africa Conference KW - (1884-1885 KW - Berlin, Germany) KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Turkey KW - Foreign relations KW - 1878-1909 KW - Europe KW - Africa KW - Colonization KW - Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index; Introduction : old empire, new empire -- Ottoman Libya, the eastern Sahara, and the central African kingdoms -- The legal production of Ottoman colonial Africa -- The diplomatic fight for Ottoman Africa -- Resistance and fortification, 1894-1899 -- Transimperial strategies for an intercontinental empire -- The local meets the global on an imperial frontier -- Conclusion : the blinding teleology of failure ER -