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Zusatztext All in all, this is a highly impressive volume based on extensive primary research and secondary reading. In chronicling British reactions to Hellenic nationalist movements, Robert Holland and Diana Markides have produced a superb nuanced study that deserves to be added to any university library with an interest in the history of modern Greece. Klappentext The age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world began with the Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820s. 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. Zusammenfassung The age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world began with the Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820s. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Bibliography Index
