The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: the National Bank of Turkey, 1909-1919

Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: the National Bank of Turkey, 1909-1919
Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: the National Bank of Turkey, 1909-1919
The National Bank of Turkey (NBT) (1909) was an attempt by the new Young Turk regime to assert economic sovereignty: creating a multinational bank able to provide financing free of the diplomatic conditions previously attached to loans by French banks. NBT's role financing naval rearmament and oil development has attracted a good deal of attention from historians. Using the archives of the bank's founders and Ottoman ministers alongside familiar diplomatic sources, this article is the first to combine Ottoman and European perspectives on NBT, challenging the traditional narrative which presents the Ottoman Empire as the helpless ‘victim’ of the fiscal imperialism of France, Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.
oil, foreign policy, economy
0026-3206
525-545
Conlin, Jonathan
3ab58a7d-d74b-48d9-99db-1ba2f3aada40
Conlin, Jonathan
3ab58a7d-d74b-48d9-99db-1ba2f3aada40

Conlin, Jonathan (2016) Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: the National Bank of Turkey, 1909-1919. Middle Eastern Studies, 52 (3), 525-545. (doi:10.1080/00263206.2015.1124418).

Record type: Article

Abstract

The National Bank of Turkey (NBT) (1909) was an attempt by the new Young Turk regime to assert economic sovereignty: creating a multinational bank able to provide financing free of the diplomatic conditions previously attached to loans by French banks. NBT's role financing naval rearmament and oil development has attracted a good deal of attention from historians. Using the archives of the bank's founders and Ottoman ministers alongside familiar diplomatic sources, this article is the first to combine Ottoman and European perspectives on NBT, challenging the traditional narrative which presents the Ottoman Empire as the helpless ‘victim’ of the fiscal imperialism of France, Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

Text
NBTArticle.pdf - Version of Record
Restricted to Repository staff only
Request a copy

More information

e-pub ahead of print date: 26 February 2016
Published date: 3 May 2016
Keywords: oil, foreign policy, economy
Organisations: History

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 388767
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/388767
ISSN: 0026-3206
PURE UUID: 4979f714-b219-42d3-86e1-2531592da8be
ORCID for Jonathan Conlin: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-4931

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 02 Mar 2016 16:47
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:27

Export record

Altmetrics

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×