Anglo-French rivalry was managed by planned partition of Ottoman territory
Evidence
Out of such commissions as the Bunsen Committee would come the joint Anglo-French teams of which the most famous was the one headed by Mark Sykes and Georges Picot. Equitable division of geographical space was the rule of these plans, which were deliberate attempts also at calming Anglo-French rivalry. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554
Categorization
- XREF: Names the Sykes-Picot machinery directly, a fixture in subsequent colonial-statehood and Islamophobia-related histories of the modern Middle East. — connects to: Mandate partition of the Ottoman empire redirected archaeological access to French and British scholars — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 384; European powers treated the Ottoman Empire as a space to be divided — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554; French Orientalism intensified to compensate for 1870 defeat and rival Britain — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 546 (+3 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mandate partition of the Ottoman empire redirected archaeological access to French and British scholars — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 384; European powers treated the Ottoman Empire as a space to be divided — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554; French Orientalism intensified to compensate for 1870 defeat and rival Britain — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 546 (+3 more)