03298nam 2200649 a 450 991045235210332120200520144314.01-280-90510-70-19-155468-51-4356-4116-7(CKB)1000000000485703(EBL)422454(OCoLC)437108583(SSID)ssj0000114957(PQKBManifestationID)11134308(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114957(PQKBWorkID)10126209(PQKB)10368668(MiAaPQ)EBC422454(Au-PeEL)EBL422454(CaPaEBR)ebr10215780(CaONFJC)MIL90510(EXLCZ)99100000000048570320050815d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBritain and the Hellenes[electronic resource] struggles for mastery in the eastern Mediterranean 1850-1960 /Robert Holland and Diana MarkidesNew York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923977-0 0-19-924996-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.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 PoliticsSources and Bibliography IndexThe 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 nationalismGreeceForeign relationsGreat BritainGreat BritainForeign relationsGreeceGreeceForeign relations1821-1862GreeceForeign relations1863-1917GreeceForeign relations20th centuryGreat BritainForeign relations1837-1901Great BritainForeign relations20th centuryElectronic books.327.410495/09Holland R. F(Robert F.)863740Markides Diana Weston991630MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452352103321Britain and the Hellenes2269540UNINA