Don Pacifico : the acceptable face of gunboat diplomacy / Derek Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Derek, 1932 August 5-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freemasonry.

History.

Blockade.

Antisemitism.

Consuls.

International relations.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Greece--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Greece--Foreign relations--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Greece.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1837-1901.

Pacifico, Don, 1784-1854.

Pacifico.

Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865.

Palmerston, Henry John Temple.

Consuls--Greece--Athens.

Antisemitism--Greece--History--19th century.

Sephardim--Greece--Athens--Biography.

Sephardim.

Greece--Athens.

Europe.

Sephardim--Portugal--Biography.

Portugal.

Blockade--Greece--Athens--History--19th century.

Freemasonry--Europe--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

284 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.

Summary:

The house of Don Pacifico, president of the Jewish community in Athens, was looted by a mob in April 1847. The riot was government-inspired and the courts were crooked. There was little chance of getting the large compensation Pacifico claimed until Viscount Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, became involved in a piece of gunboat diplomacy. The author has unearthed information which shows Pacifico to be a victim of prejudice rather than a con-man, and has shed new light on a fascinating episode of 19th-century European history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0853037620

9780853037620

0853037639

9780853037637

OCLC:

224430595