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The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions

Ozan Ozavci

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Description:A diplomatic and contrapuntal history of the emergence of Robert Liston, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century and the emergence of the 'Eastern Question'.The ‘Eastern Question’ became of central importance to relations between the Ottoman Empire and the other Great Powers in the latter half of the 19th century, but how did events at the beginning of the century give rise to it, and how did the Ottomans themselves understand the term?In this book, Ozan Ozavci traces the emergence of the ‘Eastern Question’ by exploring the life and career of Robert Liston, British Ambassador at Istanbul over two embassies in 1790’s and 1810’s. Using previously unexplored Ottoman, Russian, French, and British archival sources, including Liston’s private papers and his wife Henrietta’s Istanbul diaries, the book portrays Pera, the ambassadorial district of Istanbul, as a contact zone of interaction between European and Asian diplomats and Ottoman statesmen, and offers a micro-global, emotional and cultural history of diplomacy in the period. It shines new light upon the ‘Eastern Question’ at its inception at the turn of the nineteenth century, revealing the economic factors which gave rise to it as exemplified by the tension between Liston’s sympathy with modernising Ottoman officials and loyalty to his paymasters at the Levant Company, whose exploitative practices drained resources away from the Sublime Porte. Importantly, the book also takes a contrapuntal approach, which considers not only how European agents sought to deal with the politics of the East, but also how the Ottoman elites received and responded to such efforts with the aid of arguably the only European diplomat they truly trusted: Robert Liston.Providing a new analysis of European-Ottoman relations at a crucial historical juncture, the book will be of great interest to scholars of Ottoman, Diplomatic and Middle Eastern History.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions. To get started finding The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 224

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Release: 2025

ISBN: 0755638611

Description: A diplomatic and contrapuntal history of the emergence of Robert Liston, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century and the emergence of the 'Eastern Question'.The ‘Eastern Question’ became of central importance to relations between the Ottoman Empire and the other Great Powers in the latter half of the 19th century, but how did events at the beginning of the century give rise to it, and how did the Ottomans themselves understand the term?In this book, Ozan Ozavci traces the emergence of the ‘Eastern Question’ by exploring the life and career of Robert Liston, British Ambassador at Istanbul over two embassies in 1790’s and 1810’s. Using previously unexplored Ottoman, Russian, French, and British archival sources, including Liston’s private papers and his wife Henrietta’s Istanbul diaries, the book portrays Pera, the ambassadorial district of Istanbul, as a contact zone of interaction between European and Asian diplomats and Ottoman statesmen, and offers a micro-global, emotional and cultural history of diplomacy in the period. It shines new light upon the ‘Eastern Question’ at its inception at the turn of the nineteenth century, revealing the economic factors which gave rise to it as exemplified by the tension between Liston’s sympathy with modernising Ottoman officials and loyalty to his paymasters at the Levant Company, whose exploitative practices drained resources away from the Sublime Porte. Importantly, the book also takes a contrapuntal approach, which considers not only how European agents sought to deal with the politics of the East, but also how the Ottoman elites received and responded to such efforts with the aid of arguably the only European diplomat they truly trusted: Robert Liston.Providing a new analysis of European-Ottoman relations at a crucial historical juncture, the book will be of great interest to scholars of Ottoman, Diplomatic and Middle Eastern History.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions. To get started finding The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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