Preface and Contents  Abbreviations used in Notes The Ottoman Empire and European Alliances, 1815-1914 1. The British Library’s Collection of the Papers of Mehmed Emin Âli Paşa Some Notes on British Espionage in the Ottoman Empire, 1878-1908 2. Abdülhamid II and the Ottoman Defence Problem    3. The Ottoman Empire, the Sudan and the Red Sea Coast, 1883-1889 4. Religion, Irreligion and Nationalism in the Diaries of the Bulgarian Exarch Yosif       5. Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz and the Rebirth of the Ottoman Empire 6. Some Military Problems faced by the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th Century 7. Ottoman War Planning and the Balkan Campaign of October-December 1912 8. The Perils of Partition: the Agreements of 1913-1914 Revisited