Britain and the Hellenes [[electronic resource] ] : struggles for mastery in the eastern Mediterranean 1850-1960 / / Robert Holland and Diana Markides

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452352103321
• Autore: Holland R. F (Robert F.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-90510-7; 0-19-155468-5; 1-4356-4116-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MarkidesDiana Weston
• Disciplina: 327.410495/09
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; Greece Foreign relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign relations Greece; 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world began with the Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820's. 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. The book traces events from these nineteenth-century origins right up to the travails of British colonial rule in Cyprus and its ending in 1960. - ;The Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820's, and the ensuing establishment of an independent Hellenic Kingdom, was the principal precursor of an age of nationalism