Author: Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The remaking of modern Europe from the outbreak of the French...
Author: Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Remaking of Modern Europe from the Outbreak of the French Revolution to the Treaty of Berlin, 1789-1878
Author: John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Remaking of Modern Europe from the Outbreak of the French Revolution to the Treaty of Berlin, 1789-1878
Author: Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Remaking of Modern Europe
Author: Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Greek Revolution
Author: Mark Mazower
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143110934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143110934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.
Dance of the Furies
Author: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674049543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting in 1914, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674049543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting in 1914, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries.
The Westminster Problems Book
Author: Westminster Gazette, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Changing Identities in Early Modern France
Author: Michael Wolfe
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
After examining the interplay between competing ideologies and public institutions, from the monarchy to the Parlement of Paris to the aristocratic household, the volume explores the dynamics of deviance and dissent, particularly in regard to women's roles in religious reform movements and such sensationalized phenomena as the witch hunts and infanticide trials.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
After examining the interplay between competing ideologies and public institutions, from the monarchy to the Parlement of Paris to the aristocratic household, the volume explores the dynamics of deviance and dissent, particularly in regard to women's roles in religious reform movements and such sensationalized phenomena as the witch hunts and infanticide trials.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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The Journal of Education
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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