
Название: The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire: Modernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline
Автор: Murat Özyüksel
Издательство: I. B. Tauris
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 322
Размер: 15.2 Мб
Язык: English
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. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world - linking Constantinople to Arabia.