Matthew H. Ellis <br/><br/>
Desert Borderland:  The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya 

 - xi, 261 p.,  ill., maps;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : rethinking territorial Egypt -- Legal exceptionalism in Egypt's borderlands -- Accommodating Egyptian sovereignty in Siwa -- Abbas Hilmi II and the anatomy of a Siwan murder -- Cultivating territorial sovereignty in the western desert -- The limits of Ottoman sovereignty in the eastern Sahara -- The emergence of Egypt's western border conflict -- Conclusion : unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan border. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781503605008 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National territory--History--Egypt<br/>National territory--History--Libya<br/>Borderlands--History--Egypt<br/>Siwa--History<br/>Western Desert--History--Egypt
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Egypt--Boundaries--History--Libya<br/>Libya--Boundaries--History--Egypt<br/>Egypt--Politics and government--19th century