Ellis, Matthew H.,

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.



9781503605572

2017039912


Territory, National--History.--Egypt
Territory, National--History.--Libya
Borderlands--History.--Egypt


Electronic Books.

DT82 / .D474 2018