TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthew H.Ellis
TI  - Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya
SN  - 9781503605008
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - National territory
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Libya
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - Siwa
KW  - Western Desert
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index; 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
ER  -