Desert borderland : the making of modern Egypt and Libya /
Matthew H. Ellis.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : rethinking territorial Egypt -- Legal exceptionalism in Egypt's borderlands -- Accommodating Egyptian sovereignty in Siwa -- Abbas Hilmi II and the anatomy of a Siwan murder -- Cultivating territorial sovereignty in the western desert -- The limits of Ottoman sovereignty in the eastern Sahara -- The emergence of Egypt's western border conflict -- Conclusion : unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan border.