Author: IonianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Ionian Islands; what They Have Lost and Suffered Under the Thirty-five Years' Administration of the Lord High Commissioners Sent to Govern Them. In Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "The Ionian Islands Under British Protection"
Author: IonianRevolutionary Spring
Author: Christopher ClarkPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525575219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward “Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously unknown players emerge from the shadows.”—The Times (UK) A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The men and women of 1848 saw the urgent challenges of their world as shaped profoundly by the past, and saw themselves as inheritors of a revolutionary tradition. Celebrated Cambridge historian Christopher Clark describes 1848 as “the particle collision chamber at the center of the European nineteenth century,” a moment when political movements and ideas—from socialism and democratic radicalism to liberalism, nationalism, corporatism, and conservatism—were tested and transformed. The insurgents asked questions that sound modern to our ears: What happens when demands for political or economic liberty conflict with demands for social rights? How do we reconcile representative and direct forms of democracy? How is capitalism connected to social inequality? The revolutions of 1848 were short-lived, but their impact on public life and political thought throughout Europe and beyond has been profound. Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and filled with a cast of charismatic figures, including the social theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, the writer George Sand, and the troubled priest Félicité de Lamennais, who struggled to reconcile his faith with politics, Revolutionary Spring offers a new understanding of 1848 that suggests chilling parallels to our present moment. “Looking back at the revolutions from the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, it is impossible not to be struck by the resonances,” Clark writes. “If a revolution is coming for us, it may look something like 1848.”
The Ionian islands; what they have lost and suffered under the thirty-five years' administration of the lord high commissioners sent to govern them. In reply to 'The Ionian islands under British protection' [by sir G.F. Bowen]. By an Ionian [G.D. Papanikolas].
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Author: Georgios Drakatos PapanikolasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Usque Adeo? Or, what May be Said for the Ionian People
Author: G. D. P.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Xenocracy
Author: Sakis GekasPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 180539391X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain—a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. As author Sakis Gekas shows, the ordeal engendered dependency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryThe British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description