War by Revolution. Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I

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  1. SeePeterHopkirk,The Great Game: TheStruggleforEmpirein Central Asia;
    Fromkin,chapter2;James,RiseandFalloftheBtitisliEmpire,176,180-82,214-15;
    Kennedy,RiseandFall,190-91,227;Steiner,Originsofthe FirstWorldWar, 79-80;
    andJamesjell,The OriginsoftheFirstWorldWar,176.
    6.Adiscussionofthedoctrine'sdevelopmentis inLandau,9-70.Also,notethe
    definitionsofit inYapp,181-83;Landau,37;andHourani,Historyofthe Arab Peoples,
    3 13-14.
    7.Yapp,182;Landau,II-13,68-70,86, 122-23;andHourani,Historyofthe Arab
    Peoples,314.
    8.Forexample,mostofthehundredsofBritishsoldiers,diplomats,civil ser-
    vants,scholars,andmissionarieswhoservedintheMiddleEastandIndiabythe
    endofthenineteenthcentury,followingthemoresoftheirtimeandsocialclass,
    thoughtkindlierofanimalsthanofthelowerclassesthereandfrequentlytreated
    thelatteraccordingly;seeDerekHopwood,TalesofEmpire: The British in theMiddle
    East,1880-1952,especiallyxiii,17, 19, 40, 56.MaximeRodinson,Europeandthe
    MystiqueofIslam,trans.RogerVeinus,60,observesthatsuchviewsonthepartof
    Europeansform"theoriginofthehomoislamicus,anotionwidelyacceptedeven
    today"intheWest.AlsoontheEuropeanresponse,noteEdwardW.Said,Culture
    andImperialism;joll,178-79;WilliamMontgomeryWatt,Muslim-ChristianEn-
    counters:PerceptionsandMisperceptions,85-87,92-93,I04-5;BurkeandQuraishi,
    56-57;Esposito,37-51;andFieldhouse,234-35.
    9.SeeBurkeandQuraishi,74-75,143-44,whichemphasizesthatinthewarof
    1877,"many"MuslimsinCalcuttamosques"expressedadesiretofightintheranks
    oftheirTurkishcomrades.SimilarfeelingswererousedduringtheGreco-Turkish
    warof1897.Henceforth,allTurkishcausesevokedagitationinIndia."Accordingto
    Yapp,182-83, 206,"UnderAbdul-Hamidthenewtheoryofthecaliphatebecamea
    powerfuldiplomaticweaponagainstallEuropeanpowerswhichruledoversubstan-
    tialnumbersofMuslims,inparticularRussia,FranceandBritain."AccordingtoJames,
    RiseandFallofthe British Empire,230,therebellionof 1857 "was a civil war."
    IO.Thefigureis inLarcher,IO.SeealsoLotharRathmann,Berlin-Bagdad,12;Mon-
    roe,16;andHelmuthStoecker,"GermanEastAfrica1885-1906,"inGerman Imperial-
    ism in Africa:From theBeginningsuntiltheSecondWorld War,ed.HelmuthStoecker,
    trans.BerndZollner,93-II3.
    II.Accordingly,forexample,hefavoredBritain'soccupationofEgyptafter1882,
    therebyencouragingAnglo-Frenchdifferencesoverthe"Egyptianquestion"andus-
    ingittoextractcolonialconcessionsfromBritain.SeeSchollgen,15-30;Hans-Ulrich
    Wehler,DasDeutscheKaiserreich1871-1918,172-75;andPaulM.Kennedy,The Rise
    oftheAnglo-GermanAntagonism,1860-1914,161,167-75.AccordingtoHolgerH.
    Herwig,HammerorAnvil?ModemGermany, 1648-Present,131,"Overseascompeti-
    tionwassimplytheextensionofBismarck'sEuropeansecuritypolicytotheperiph-
    ery." InthewordsofGeorgeO.Kent,Bismarckand His Times,I09,"Germanyneeded
    bothRussiaandAustria,andcouldthereforenotaffordtobecomeinvolvedinthe
    NearEastortheBalkans."
    12.MichaelFrohlich,Imperialismus.DeutscheKolonial-undWeltpolitik1880-
    1914,1994),34-42;Kennedy,Anglo-GermanAntagonism,175-82;RaymondJames
    Sontag,GermanyandEngland:BackgroundotContlict,1848-1894,186,196-99,20I,

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