Commandeering empires: Egypt, Tripoli, and Tunis in the Age of Revolution, 1774-1835
Journal: ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania)
Year: 2016

This dissertation interrogates our conceptualizations of space, our understanding of the topographical borders of regions, and our historiographical depiction of the margins between imperial administration and local autonomy the Ottoman Maghreb. It does so by juxtaposing the history of corsairs, Bedouins, desert caravans and empires in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century North Africa. Further, it examines the horizontal connections among the North African provinces and their corresponding systems of