The British and the Hellenes : struggles for mastery in the eastern Mediterranean 1850-1960 / Robert Holland and Diana Markides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, R. F. (Robert F.), author.

Markides, Diana Weston, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Greece.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Greece.

Great Britain.

Greece--Foreign relations--1821-1862.

Greece--Foreign relations--1863-1917.

Greece--Foreign relations--20th century.

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

Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world began with the Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820s. This book explores the power struggles which followed, focusing in particular on Britain's role in the expansion of Greece as an independent nation-state.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; 1. The British and the Hellenes; 2. Gladstone and the Greeks: The Extraordinary Mission to the Ionian Islands, 1858-1859; 3. The Abandonment of the Ionian Protectorate, 1859-1864; 4. The End of Ottoman Power in Crete, 1894-1898; 5. An Unfortunate Regime: The Experiment of Cretan Autonomy, 1898-1906; 6. Britain, the Balkans and the Climax of Cretan Union, 1906-1913; 7. The Peculiarity of Cyprus, 1878-1931; 8. The Dodecanese Experience, 1939-1948; 9. Mastery and Despair: Cyprus, 1931-1960; 10. Love, Deception and Anglo-Hellenic Politics; Sources and Bibliography Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-261) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03894-5

1-280-90510-7

0-19-155468-5

1-4356-4116-7

OCLC:

437108583