Napoleon and the Dardanelles / Vernon J. Puryear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puryear, Vernon J., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.) : 1 frontisp.: Napoleon receiving Persian Ambassador Mirza at Finkenstein, April 27, 1807.

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I Observer on the Bosporus (1802—1803)

II "Emperor and Padishah" (1804)

III Scheming for Persian Cooperation (1805)

IV Ottoman Policy Veers Toward France (OCTOBER, 1805—FEBRUARY, 1806)

V New French Courses Are Charted (MARCH—JULY, 1806)

VI Breaking the Russo-Turkish Alliance (AUGUST—DECEMBER, 1806)

VII "That Infernal Strait" (JANUARY—FEBRUARY, 1807)

VIII Persia Enters the French Orbit (MARCH—MAY, 1807)

IX Napoleon Abandons the Ottoman Empire (JUNE—JULY, 1807)

X An Unratified Armistice (JULY—SEPTEMBER, 1807)

XI Testing the Franco-Russian Alliance (OCTOBER—DECEMBER, 1807)

XII Shall Turkey Be Partitioned? (JANUARY—FEBRUARY, 1808)

XIII The Dardanelles—"La Langue de chat" (MARCH, 1808)

XIV " The Bases Cannot Be Accepted" (MARCH—JUNE, 1808)

XV Post-mortem at Erfurt (JULY—NOVEMBER, 1808)

XVI Near Eastern Policy at Loose Ends (1808-1809)

XVII Rim of the Blockade (1809—1814)

XVIII Epilogue: The Last Phase (1814—1815)

NOTES

Bibliographical Note

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520349032

0520349032

OCLC:

1198930497