TY  - BOOK
AU  - Özyüksel,Murat
TI  - The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire: modernity, industrialisation and Ottoman decline 
T2  - Library of Ottoman Studies
SN  - 9781780763644
AV  - HE3380.3.Z8 H45613 2014
U1  - 385.09538 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Hejaz Railway
KW  - History
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Eisenbahn
KW  - Turkey
KW  - 1878-1909
KW  - Mehmed V, 1909-1918
KW  - Osmanisches Reich
KW  - Hedschasbahn
KW  - Syria
KW  - Saudia Arabia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-289) and index
N2  - Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East railways were no less important, and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject
ER  -