The voice of England in the East : Stratford Canning and diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire / Steven Richmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, Steven, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning, Viscount, 1786-1880.

Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Turkey.

Great Britain.

Turkey--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

Summary:

"In the time of the 'Great Powers', Stratford Canning served as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during several long missions throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. Drafted into diplomacy by his older cousin and mentor, the statesman George Canning, Stratford arrived in the Ottoman capital at the age of 22 in January 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. He concluded his final mission there in October 1858, more than two years after the end of the Crimean War. His name became synonymous across Europe with the so-called Eastern Question, the imperial contest between the Powers for leverage in the Levant. Canning was a prominent figure in major diplomatic episoes of the period, including the crucial peace-treaty reached by the Ottomans and Russians in late May 1812, only weeks before Napoleon's invasion of Russia; the war of Greek independence in the 1820s and the negotiation of an independent Greek state in 1832; and the preliminaries of the Crimean War in 1853. He witnessed and documented dramatic moments of Ottoman politics, such as the Vaka-i Hayriye or 'Auspicious Event'- the elimination of the ancient elite palace guards, the Janissaries, by Sultan Mahmud II in June 1826. For decades Canning supported the Ottoman reform movement, and he played a role in developments preceding Sultan Abdulmecit's abolition of capital punishment for apostasy from Islam in March 1844. In The Voice of England in the East, Steven Richmond reconstructs the imperial objectives and diplomatic pratices of the period; and depicts the characters, customs and scenes of Konstantniyye, Ottoman Constantinople. Based upon Canning's personal archive, British and Ottoman diplomatic records, newspaper accounts, correspondence and memoirs, the result is an original study of East-West relations and a novel portrait of empire at the dawn of the industrial era--Bloomsbury Publishing."

Contents:

Contents

Prologue. 'The Stratford Legend' 1-30

I. BRITISH-OTTOMAN PEACE, 1808-10

1. Apprenticeship in Diplomacy 32-52

2. The Treaty of the Dardanelles 53-74

3. Stranded at Constantinople 75-111

II. RUSSIAN-OTTOMAN PEACE, 1810-12

4. Chief of Mission 113-149

5. Piracy on the Aegean, War on the Danube 150-188

6. The Treaty of Bucharest 189-209

III. GREEK-OTTOMAN PEACE, 1824-32

7. Return to Constantinople 211-235

8. The Destruction of the Janissaries 236-259

9. The Battle of Navarino 260-304

10. Final Negotiation 305-331

IV. OTTOMAN REFORM: THE APOSTASY CONTROVERSY, 1843-44

11. The Case of Armenian Avakim 333-357

12. Disputation on Koranic Theology 358-374

13. Advocate of Ottoman Progress 375-401

V. THE CRIMEAN WAR, 1853-56

14. 'Heaven Help Me!' 403-424

15. 'A Sample of the Effects of War' 425-443

16. 'Obliviscenda' 444-470 Epilogue. 'Eastern Question' - 'Western Question' 471-479

Note on the Text

Glossary of Historical Diplomatic Terms

Glossary of Ottoman Terms and Names

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755607754

0755607759

9780857733870

0857733877

9780857723659

0857723650

OCLC:

956648008