The War and the Bagdad RailwayJ.B. Lippincott, 1918 - 160 σελίδες This book is about the path that connects Constantinople with Bagdad through Asia Minor. The war and the Bagdad Railway determines that this path and Asia Minor itself is at the core of the Eastern Question and how it is the determining element in bringing about the alternate rise and decline of the East. |
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Ægeans ambitions Anatolian Railway ancient Angora Arabia Arabs army Asia Minor aspect Assyria Babylonia Bagdad Railway Balkan Basra battle Battle of Kadesh Bayezid Boghaz-Keui brought capital capitalists century character Cilician gates civilization coast commercial concession conquest Constanti Constantinople Constantinople to Bagdad construction Crusades democracy diplomatic domination East Eastern Question Egypt Egyptian Emperor England English enterprise entire Euphrates Euphrates Valley Europe European powers factor force French German government German syndicate Germany's Greek hands Hebrew Hinterland historic highway history of Asia Hittite Hittite language hold India internationalization irrigation kilometres Konia land Levant Trade Review menace ment Mesopotamia miles military million francs Mohammed Moslem natural nople northern Syria Ottoman outbreak Palestine passed peace Persian Gulf plans political position possession Railway project region Roman route rulers Russia scheme secure Seljuk Turks spirit stantinople stretch struggle Sultan Syria Tigris tion Turkey Turkish Empire Turkish government West Western
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Σελίδα 114 - ... the concession granted to the Anatolian Railway Company. No step ever taken by any European power anywhere has caused so much trouble, given rise to so many complications, and has been such a constant menace to the peace of the world. No European statesman to whom the destinies of his country have been committed has rested easily in the presence of this spectre of the twentieth century. In the last analysis the Bagdad Railway will be found to be the largest single contributing factor in bringing...
Σελίδα 114 - Bagdad Railway has been a nightmare resting heavily on all Europe for eighteen years — ever since the announcement in 1899 of the concession granted to the Anatolian Railway Company. No step ever taken by any European power anywhere has caused so much trouble, given rise to so many complications, and has been such a constant menace to the peace of the world. No European statesman to whom the destinies of his country have been committed has rested easily in the presence of this spectre of the twentieth...
Σελίδα 120 - Railway which contributed more than any other complication to create the condition needed for the conflict. From the historical point of view there are thus two aspects to the Bagdad Railway. It represents, on the one hand, the last act in the process of reopening the direct way to the East which became closed to the West by the fall of Constantinople in 1453...
Σελίδα 95 - ... right of navigation on the Shattel-Arab and the Tigris — an exclusively English privilege — during the period of construction of the railway in this region. That gave an entirely new interpretation to the convention as a whole and at once created a critical situation which steadily grew worse. The favor shown the German Syndicate was evident on the surface. Such terms had never been secured before. No wonder that there were great rejoicings in Germany when they were announced, and gnashing...
Σελίδα 89 - Had the northern route to Bagdad been followed by the German syndicate and left a southern route free for a second line in the hands of England or France, the railway projects of Asia Minor and Syria might have remained purely commercial undertakings of great cultural value, marking the economic progress of contact between East and West. The political aspect of railway plans in the Near East might have been permanently kept in the background. The European situation would have assumed an entirely...
Σελίδα 92 - ... East as well. Such has been its role in the past — such is its significance today. . . . England's influence at Constantinople, paramount till 1880, weakened then, largely through Gladstone's opposition to the regime of Turkey, for which there was ample justification. The Armenian massacres of 1894 shocked Europe, and Gladstone was irreconcilable in his denunciation of the "unspeakable Turk," as the Sultan and all Turkey came to be called. This, naturally, was not pleasing to Constantinople,...
Σελίδα 121 - internationalization' of the highway as the solution, and it also voices a warning to the West that the reopening of the highway must not be used for domination over the East but for cooperation with it, not for exploiting the East, but for a union with it.
Σελίδα 97 - ... from Hamburg to the Persian Gulf in seven or eight days only, with four additional days by steamer to reach India- The Pan-Germanists, whose voice had become blatant in Germany by this time, added coals to the fire by their equally open jubilation at the prospects of a complete German control of the Turkish possessions in Asia. German colonization in Asia Minor was to be encouraged, following in the wake of the commercial advantages to be gained by the railway, and thus the diplomatic supremacy...
Σελίδα 120 - On the other hand, the conflict to which the railway gave rise illustrates once more the crucial role that this highway has always played in determining the fate of the Near East from the most ancient days down to our times. The opposition of the European powers to the Bagdad Railway, used as a political scheme for the aggrandizement of a particular country, registers the instinctive protest of the West against the domination of the East by any one power — no matter which. The danger would have...