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The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41
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ISBN10: 3319816772
ISBN13: 9783319816777
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 27 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783319816777
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 27 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
1. Three Ships This introductory chapter provides key background on the Eastern Crisis, such as on the diplomatic and military narrative. It introduces the main protagonists, including the French premier Adolphe Thiers, Lord Palmerston, Metternich, and his Prussian counterpart Werther. The introduction also differentiates the book from existing works on the crisis and on nineteenth-century European diplomacy. Finally, it touches on the European Oriental renaissance, on ambassadorial roles and the contents of the consular correspondence, and the role and nature of the contemporary press and public opinions.
2. Shifting Sands This makes the point that policy, far from being the immutable product of geographic imperative, was shaped by domestic pressures and opinions. Palmerston was compelled to tender his resignation in 1840 when the cabinet refused to sign his treaty. Louis-Philippe and Thiers both owed their careers to the press and were the creatures of the great Paris dailies. In Russia, factions of Orthodox nationalists and Westernisers competed for the Tsar's attention, causing priorities to shift between expansion and retrenchment. Nor was diplomacy in the Eastern Crisis a closed-door, aristocratic exercise, on the contrary: the protagonists made frequent use of public diplomacy, appealing to publics across national borders.
3. An Egyptian Bonaparte This chapter explains how Mehemet Ali became a French protégé and conversely a bugbear of the northern courts. Drawing from the memory of the Napoleonic expedition in Egypt, helped by Champollion and nascent Egyptology and by his own modernising propaganda, the Pasha became identified as a standard bearer for the French civilising mission and, by extension, a Liberal champion against the ancien régime that was characterised by the Ottoman Empire. He also appealed to many European and British radicals, and in Britain, this created a challenge for the Whig cabinet, which relied on radical parliamentary support. In the northern courts, this made him anathema: a rebel and an aggressor, as Bonaparte had been.
4. The Age of Turkish Improvement Palmerston's modernising candidate was Turkey itself. Thanks to early efforts by Sultan Mahmud, the Ottoman Empire could pretend, by the 1830s, to Whig reforming patronage. Decisive steps were taken in the form of the Balta-Liman trade convention and the Edict of Gulhané. The Syrian rebellion of 1840 against Mehemet Ali, and the echo it found in the British media, helped broaden the appeal of the Ottoman cause. Official belief in Turkey's improvement program was moreover reflected in British policy in Syria after the invasion, in 1841. Long before, nevertheless, Britain's espousal of Ottoman reconstruction, through a program of free trade, laissez-faire, and security of person and property, made its alignment in the Eastern Question all but predestined.
5. Christian Zionists On 5 February 1840, Father Thomas, a Sardinian who was superior at a Franciscan convent in Damascus, disappeared along with his servant, Ibrahim Amara. The Jews were accused, and the ensuing affair drew in the European consular services and press-reading publics. That the Damascus Affair took place at the same time as the Eastern Crisis was a coincidence, but that it had such an echo was not. In Britain, especially, the wish was widely shared for the crown to protect the dispersed Jews from persecution. This combined with widespread belief, based on scripture and prophecy, in the Restoration or return of the Jews to Palestine. Such societies as the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews were prepared to lobby for it, as was a Berlin-based sister organisation. The stage was set both for religion to impart an increased acuteness to the crisis, and for th
3. An Egyptian Bonaparte This chapter explains how Mehemet Ali became a French protégé and conversely a bugbear of the northern courts. Drawing from the memory of the Napoleonic expedition in Egypt, helped by Champollion and nascent Egyptology and by his own modernising propaganda, the Pasha became identified as a standard bearer for the French civilising mission and, by extension, a Liberal champion against the ancien régime that was characterised by the Ottoman Empire. He also appealed to many European and British radicals, and in Britain, this created a challenge for the Whig cabinet, which relied on radical parliamentary support. In the northern courts, this made him anathema: a rebel and an aggressor, as Bonaparte had been.
4. The Age of Turkish Improvement Palmerston's modernising candidate was Turkey itself. Thanks to early efforts by Sultan Mahmud, the Ottoman Empire could pretend, by the 1830s, to Whig reforming patronage. Decisive steps were taken in the form of the Balta-Liman trade convention and the Edict of Gulhané. The Syrian rebellion of 1840 against Mehemet Ali, and the echo it found in the British media, helped broaden the appeal of the Ottoman cause. Official belief in Turkey's improvement program was moreover reflected in British policy in Syria after the invasion, in 1841. Long before, nevertheless, Britain's espousal of Ottoman reconstruction, through a program of free trade, laissez-faire, and security of person and property, made its alignment in the Eastern Question all but predestined.
5. Christian Zionists On 5 February 1840, Father Thomas, a Sardinian who was superior at a Franciscan convent in Damascus, disappeared along with his servant, Ibrahim Amara. The Jews were accused, and the ensuing affair drew in the European consular services and press-reading publics. That the Damascus Affair took place at the same time as the Eastern Crisis was a coincidence, but that it had such an echo was not. In Britain, especially, the wish was widely shared for the crown to protect the dispersed Jews from persecution. This combined with widespread belief, based on scripture and prophecy, in the Restoration or return of the Jews to Palestine. Such societies as the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews were prepared to lobby for it, as was a Berlin-based sister organisation. The stage was set both for religion to impart an increased acuteness to the crisis, and for th
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