03234nam 2200625 a 450 991078183540332120230831224414.01-383-03894-51-280-90510-70-19-155468-51-4356-4116-7(CKB)1000000000485703(EBL)422454(OCoLC)437108583(SSID)ssj0000114957(PQKBManifestationID)11134308(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114957(PQKBWorkID)10126209(PQKB)10368668(Au-PeEL)EBL422454(CaPaEBR)ebr10215780(CaONFJC)MIL90510(MiAaPQ)EBC422454(EXLCZ)99100000000048570320050815d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBritain and the Hellenes struggles for mastery in the eastern Mediterranean 1850-1960 /Robert Holland and Diana MarkidesNew York :Oxford University Press,2006.1 online resource (281 pages)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 Politics; Sources 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 century327.410495/09Holland R. F(Robert F.)1471253Markides Diana Weston1471254MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781835403321Britain and the Hellenes3683484UNINA