Episode 40: Davison Pasha

The Age of Napoleon Podcast

Everett Rummage

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

An interview with the writer and historian Derek Davison, who helps us look past the myths and orientalist fantasies to see the Middle East as it actually was on the eve of Napoleon's arrival. Topics include: the unique and dysfunctional regime of the Mamelukes, religion, Ottoman decline, and the 18th-century Middle Eastern way of war. You can find Derek's foreign policy writing for LobeLog at: https://lobelog.com/author/derek-davison/ His commentaries on Ibn Battuta are here: https://therihlah.com/ And his international affairs/history site is here: https://attwiw.com/ He is also on Twitter as @dwdavison9318 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	Welcome to the age of Napoleon.
1:19.4	Episode 40, Davison Pasha. Thanks for joining me. Last time we talked a lot about 18th century European views towards what they referred to as the Orient, specifically Egypt.
1:26.7	In this episode we are going to flip perspectives and examine what these societies Napoleon
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