Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and associate member at the Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques in Paris.

• Introduction


• Part I: Avant le mot


• 1: Crossing the Mediterranean


• 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars


• 3: The Chase in the Desert: Empire and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812


• Part II: The Invention of the Eastern Question


• 4: A New Era? The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World


• 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul and the Civil War of 1832-3


• 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant


• 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilisation, Commerce, and Reform


• 8: Return of the Ashes: The Concert of Europe and the 1840 Intervention


• Part III: The Mountain


• 9: Beginnings: Mount Lebanon before 1840


• 10: The Age of the Eastern Question


• 11: The Two Wars: Crimea and Mount Lebanon


• 12: An Untimely Return of the Eastern Question?


• 13: Returning the Sense of Security: The International Commission on Syria

Dangerous Gifts is a book about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.