Anglo-Ottoman Encounters in the Age of Revolution: The Collected Essays of Allan Cunningham, Volume 1

by Edward Ingram (Editor)

Overview

This volume traces the effects of involvement in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on the Ottoman Empire. The book analyzes Anglo-Ottoman relations in a series of studies of five British ambassadors at Constantinople and one Foreign Secretary, George Canning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714634944
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1993
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Allan Cunnigham, Late Professor of History at Simon Fraser University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Ochakov Debate; Chapter 2 Robert Adair’s Mission to St Petersburg; Chapter 3 Robert Liston at Constantinople; Chapter 4 Robert Adair and the Treaty of the Dardanelles; Chapter 5 Stratford Canning and the Treaty of Bucharest; Chapter 6 Lord Strangford and the Greek Revolt; Chapter 7 The Philhellenes, George Canning and Greek Independence; Chapter 8 Stratford Canning, Mahmud II, and Greece;

Editorial Reviews

The first of two volumes of essays by the late Cunningham (1924-88) on the Eastern Question. The eight offerings (two previously unpublished) examine diplomatic relations between the UK and the Ottoman Empire during the period of revolutions in Europe and the Napoleonic Wars, in the 1820s, focusing on five British ambassadors to Constantinople. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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