Author: William James StillmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
American Consul in a Cretan War
Author: William James StillmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The American Consul
Author: Charles Stuart KennedyPublisher: New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN: 098643535X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This definitive study of the U.S. Consular Service examines its history from the Revolutionary War until its integration with the Foreign Service in 1924. As a British colony, Americans relied on the British consular system to take care of their sailors and merchants. But after the Revolution they scrambled to create an American service. While the American diplomatic establishment was confined to the world’s major capitals, U.S. consular posts proliferated to most of the major ports where the expanding American merchant marine called. Mostly untrained political appointees, each consul was a lonely individual relying on his native wits to provide help to distressed Americans. Appointments were often given to accomplished authors, with notable members including Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fennimore Cooper, William Dean Howells, Bret Harte, and the cartoonist Thomas Nast. Briefly traces the history of consuls from their creation in Ancient Egypt, this volume sheds light on the significant roles American consuls played throughout history, including in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. This second edition continues the narrative to cover World War I, the Greek disaster in Turkey, and the early years of the Weimar Republic.
In Byron's Shadow
Author: David Ernest RoesselPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195143868
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In Bryon's Shadow draws on a wide range of sources to create a model for literary history that synthesizes literary investigation and cultural studies to develop a fuller understanding of the historical forces influencing the Anglo-American conception of modern Greece."--Jacket.
War and Social Change in Modern Europe
Author: Sandra HalperinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521540155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small and medium scale conflicts often ignored by researchers and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. This book revisits the historical terrain of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944), however, it argues that Polanyi's analysis is, in important ways, inaccurate and misleading. Ultimately, the book shows how and why the conflicts both culminated in the world wars and brought about a 'great transformation' in Europe. Its account of this period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis, but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization.
American Consul in a Cretan War
Author: William James StillmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
America's Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865
Author: Walter Burges SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consuls
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8
Author: William James StillmanPublisher: New York, Holt
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Crisis of the Ottoman Empire
Author: James J. ReidPublisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515076876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This work focuses upon the military problems of the Ottoman Empire in the era 1839 to 1878. The author examines the Crimean War (1853 to 1856) from the perspective of the Ottoman army, using British and French sources, as well as the few available Ottoman materials. Scholarship on the war has ignored this aspect, but the high quality of work about the British, French, and Russian involvement in the war has enabled the present study to advance its own work. The inability of the Ottoman high command to learn the lessons of the Crimean War led to serious defeats in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Revolts occurring in this period also receive attention. While the book analyzes the nature of war in the Balkans and Anatolia, its primary objective is the study of the war's social and psychological influences. This perspective runs as a theme throughout the book, but the author focuses on the psychological aspects in the final chapter using comparative perspectives. .
Sacred Interests
Author: Karine V. WaltherPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625407
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.S. diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam began to shape their responses to world events. In Sacred Interests, Karine V. Walther excavates the deep history of American Islamophobia, showing how negative perceptions of Islam and Muslims shaped U.S. foreign relations from the Early Republic to the end of World War I. Beginning with the Greek War of Independence in 1821, Walther illuminates reactions to and involvement in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the efforts to protect Jews from Muslim authorities in Morocco, American colonial policies in the Philippines, and American attempts to aid Christians during the Armenian Genocide. Walther examines the American role in the peace negotiations after World War I, support for the Balfour Declaration, and the establishment of the mandate system in the Middle East. The result is a vital exploration of the crucial role the United States played in the Islamic world during the long nineteenth century--an interaction that shaped a historical legacy that remains with us today.
Khedive Ismail's Army
Author: John P. DunnPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714657042
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides the first detailed examination in English of the Egyptian-Abyssinian War and looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective, including class, racism, politics, finance, and changing military technology.