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

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218-19;Schollgen,28-29;Wehler,175-76;Herwig,HammerorAnvil?131;andVolkerR.
Berghahn,ImperialGermany,187I-19I4:Economy,Society,CultureandPolitics,266.


  1. For atimeduringthe1830SPrussiahadsentofficersto advisethesultan's
    army,andirhadopenedaconsulateinJerusalem.Also,Swabianreligiousdissidents,
    theTemplars,hadfoundedsettlementsin theHolyLand,andbeginninginthe1870S
    Germanengineers,surveyors,andrailroadconstructioncompanieshadworkedin
    AsiaMinor.SeeTrumpener,"GermanyandtheEndoftheOttomanEmpire,"112;
    andJehuda1.Wallach,AnatomieeinetMilitiirliilte.Dieprculsisch-dcutschen
    Militiirmissionenin derTiirkei1835-1919,15-33.
    14.Schollgen,32-47;andRathmann,Berlin-Bagdad,13-32.Onthemilitarymis-
    sion,noteWallach,Anatomie,34-108;andReeva S.Simon,"TheEducationofan
    IraqiOttomanArmy Officer," inThe OriginsofArabNatiorulism,eds.RashidKhalidi,
    LisaAnderson,MuhammadMuslih,andReevaS.Simon,155-61.RegardingBismarck's
    policy, asreflectedintheRusso-TurkishwarandBerlinCongressof1877-78, see Kent,
    Bismarck,IIO-12.
    IS.AdiscussionontheGermanattitudetowardEgyptiansandotherpeoplesin
    theMiddleEastbetween 1870 and1914is inMommsen,particularly141-42,144-45.
    Regardingthegovernment'scontemptfortheminoritiesinGermany,suchasCatho-
    lics, Jews, Poles,Danes,andAlsace-Lorraineans,noteBerghahn,97-123;andHerwig,
    HammerorAnvil?138.InKent,Bismarck,II2,theauthorobservesofBismarck'srole
    inthesettlementattheCongressofBerlinin 1878,"FortheBalkanpeopleheshowed
    noconcernwhatever."Portionsofthischapter,as well aspartsofthesecond,are
    discussedinDonaldM. MeKale,"GermanyandtheArabQuestionbeforeWorldWar
    I,"The Historian, 59 (1997):3II-26.
    16.JohannFuck,DieArebischetiStudienin Europa bis in denAnfangdes20.
    [ahrhundetts,234.
    17.SomeoftheseideastheGermanshadlearnedfromNapoleonIll'sthreat,dur-
    ing hisbriefwaragainstAustriain 1859, toincitethedifferentnationalitiesin the
    HapsburgempiretorevoltagainstVienna.SeeZechlin,"Friedensbestrebungen,"B24
    (raIune1961):325-37;andGottfriedHagen,Die TiirkeiimErsten Weltkrieg. Flugbliicter
    undFlugscbriitenin srabischer,petsiscberundosmenisch-tiirkischetSprecheaus
    einerSammlungderUniversitiitsbibliothekHeidelbergeingeleitet,iibetsetztund
    kotnmentiert,30.
    18.Hagen,31-34.
    19.Nationalistandeconomicgroups,whichincludedthePan-GermanLeague,
    demandedthatGermanyexpanditscolonialinterestsoverseas; also, theBerlingov-
    ernmenthopedtobluntsocialistoppositiontothegovernmentbyunifyingthena-
    tionaroundtheidealoftheReich'smilitarymightandworldinfluence.Standard
    accountsincludeWehler,171-92;Berghahn,270-77;Herwig,HammerorAnvil?171-
    75;HelmutStoecker,"TheQuestfor'GermanCentralAfrica,'''inGerman Imperial-
    ism in Africa:From theBeginningsUntil theSecondWorld War,ed.HelmuthStoecker,
    trans.BerndZollner,250-52; Kennedy,Anglo-GermanAntagonism,passim;andRoger
    Chickering,We Men Who FeelMostGerman: ACulturalStudyofthe Pan German
    League,especiallythesectionontheleague'sideology,74-125.
    20.RegardingtheFranco-GermanconflictoverMorocco,theGermanswere in-
    terestedinacquiringrawmaterials,likeironore.Germanarmamentsandmining
    companies,namelyKruppandMannesmann,hadrepresentativesinMoroccowho

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