The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire: Modernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline PDF
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Murat O¨zyu¨ksel is Professor of History and Political Science at Istanbul University. THE HEJAZ RAILWAY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Modernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline ¨ MURAT OZYU¨KSEL Publishedin2014byI.B.Tauris&Co.Ltd 6SalemRoad,LondonW24BU 175FifthAvenue,NewYorkNY10010 www.ibtauris.com DistributedintheUnitedStatesandCanada ExclusivelybyPalgraveMacmillan 175FifthAvenue,NewYorkNY10010 Copyrightq2014MuratO¨zyu¨ksel TherightofMuratO¨zyu¨kseltobeidentifiedastheauthorofthisworkhasbeenasserted bytheauthorinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,oranypart thereof,maynotbereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem, ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recordingorotherwise,withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. LibraryofOttomanStudies,39 ISBN:9781780763644 eISBN:9780857737434 ePDF:9780857725608 AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary AfullCIPrecordisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:available TypesetinGaramondThreebyOKSPrepressServices,Chennai,India PrintedandboundbyCPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY Translated from Turkish by Sezin Tekin TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations viii Abbreviations ix Map x Introduction 1 1. The Historical Development of Railway Construction in the Ottoman Empire 10 2. Decision to Construct the Hejaz Railway 39 3. Financing the Hejaz Railway 69 4. The Construction of the Hejaz Railway 96 5. Forces Resisting the Hejaz Railway 140 6. Were the Expectations Fulfilled? 179 Conclusion 213 Notes 228 Bibliography 274 Index 290 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Source for all images: I˙stanbul U¨niversitesi Nadir Eserler Ku¨tu¨phanesi 1 An Ottoman Committee visiting Dera Station,1905 2 Railway Construction in Damascus district, 1901 3 Ottoman Operating Officers traveling by private train on the Hejaz railway, 1905 4 The Construction of Maan railway line, 1903 5 The opening ceremony of Haifa Station, 1905 6 Tabuk Station, 1909 7 El Ula istasyonu, 1909: Al Ula Station, 1909 8 The opening ceremony of Al Ula Station, 1907 9 Al Akhdar Station, 1909 10 Hajis traveling by Hejaz train, 1909 11 Dera Station, 1903 12AnOttomanCommitteedepartingfromMaantoDamascus,1905 13 Train carrying construction materials for Hejaz railway, 1905 ABBREVIATIONS Admin.Reg Administrative Registratur AfEW Archiv fu¨r Eisenbahnwesen B.D. British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898–1914 B.D.F.A. British Documents on Foreign Affairs B.O.A Ba(cid:1)sbakanlık Osmanlı Ar(cid:1)sivi C¸YO C¸ag˘ını Yakalayan Osmanlı DHP Socie´te´ Ottomane du Chemin de fer de Damas-Hamah et Prolongements DLZ Deutsche Levante Zeitung G.D.D. German Diplomatic Documents, 1871–1914 G.P. Die Grosse Politik der Europa¨ischen Kabinette HHStA Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchiv PA/AA Politisches Archiv des Auswaertigen Amtes P.D.H.C. Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons ZdVDEV Zeitung des Vereins Deutscher Eisenbahnverwaltungen
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