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