The Muslim Bonaparte : Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece / K. E. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, K. E., author.

Series:

Princeton Modern Greek Studies

Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--Albania--Biography.

Statesmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in recent decades. K. E. Fleming shows that the British and French diplomatic experience of Ali was at odds with the "orientalist" literatures that he inspired. Dubbed by Byron the "Muslim Bonaparte," Ali enjoyed a position of diplomatic strength in the eastern Adriatic; in his attempt to secede from the Ottoman state, he cleverly took advantage of the diplomatic relations of Britain, Russia, France, and Venice. As he reached the peak of his powers, however, European accounts of him portrayed him in ever more "orientalist" terms--as irrational, despotic, cruel, and undependable.Fleming focuses on the tension between these two experiences of Ali--the diplomatic and the cultural. She also places the history of modern Greece in the context of European history, as well as that of Ottoman decline, and demonstrates the ways in which contemporary European visions of Greece, particularly those generated by Romanticist philhellenism, contributed to a unique form of "orientalism" in the south Balkans. Greece, a territory never formally colonized by Western Europe, was subject instead to a surrogate form of colonial control--one in which the country's history and culture, rather than its actual land, was annexed, invaded, and colonized.Originally published in 1999.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ONE. Introduction

TWO. Historiography, Historical Context, Sources, and a Brief Biography

THREE. Ali and the Economy of Ioannina

FOUR. Ethnicity, Language, and Religion: The Bases for Nationalism within Ali's Borders

FIVE. THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT: AN OVERVIEW

SIX. Initial Contact with the French

SEVEN. The Russo-Turkish Alliance, the Septinsular Republic, and the British

EIGHT. Orientalist Strategies

NINE. Orientalist Themes

TEN. Ali's Manipulation of the Orientalist Image

ELEVEN. Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691631431

0691631433

9781400864973

1400864976

OCLC:

889251384