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Author : Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : UOM:39015067127038
Author : Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0267823258
Excerpt from Cretan Sketches This little book makes no claim to be a history of the recent Cretan revolution, still less to be a history of Crete. Its aim is merely to enable the newspaper-reader to fill in the gaps in his mental panorama of Cretan struggles by a few rough etchings mostly taken from life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : OCLC:17633272
Author : Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford SMITH,Melton PRIOR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504770738
Author : Davide Rodogno
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691151335
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for the contemporary era. While it is commonly believed that humanitarian interventions are a fairly recent development, Rodogno demonstrates that almost two centuries ago an international community, under the aegis of certain European powers, claimed a moral and political right to intervene in other states' affairs to save strangers from massacre, atrocity, or extermination. On some occasions, these powers acted to protect fellow Christians when allegedly "uncivilized" states, like the Ottoman Empire, violated a "right to life." Exploring the political, legal, and moral status, as well as European perceptions, of the Ottoman Empire, Rodogno investigates the reasons that were put forward to exclude the Ottomans from the so-called Family of Nations. He considers the claims and mixed motives of intervening states for aiding humanity, the relationship between public outcry and state action or inaction, and the bias and selectiveness of governments and campaigners. An original account of humanitarian interventions some two centuries ago, Against Massacre investigates the varied consequences of European involvement in the Ottoman Empire and the lessons that can be learned for similar actions today.
Author : Mario Iozzo
Publisher : Casa Editrice Bonechi
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8880294245
Discover the rich history and culture of some of the world¿s most influential historical places with these highly illustrated books, packed with informative and enlightening descriptions and information
Author : Mary Adelaide Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012435272
Author : Robert Holland,Diana Markides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199249961
The Greek revolt against Turkish rule in the 1820s, and the ensuing establishment of an independent Hellenic Kingdom, was the principal precursor of an age of nationalism in the eastern Mediterranean world. Amongst the Great Powers, Great Britain thereafter played the most critical role in struggles to expand the frontiers of Greece beyond their initially confined extent. Through a focus on events leading to the cession of the Ionian Islands to Greece in 1864, the often bloodyprocess of Cretan unification climaxing in 1913, the adhesion of the Dodecanese to Greece in 1948, and the travails of British colonial rule in Cyprus through to independence in 1960, the book develops a comparative overview of the United Kingdom's engagements with the modern Hellenic experience.At the heart of the various themes covered by this volume is the interaction between internal and external forces shaping the futures of divided island societies. In exploring the resulting patterns the authors provide an original insight into the political and social morphology of the eastern Mediterranean. Although the principal context is provided by Anglo-Hellenic relations, the nature of the struggles necessitate a close attention to Ottoman decline and post-Ottoman succession, Great Powerrivalries, ethnic and communal disintegration, the early history of international peace-keeping, and decolonization after 1945.In tracing these preoccupations, the often neglected significance of the eastern Mediterranean is more accurately situated in relation to British authority overseas and its limits. Although the policy process is carefully charted, the essential concern is with struggles of mastery within islands where Britons and Greeks, amongst others, found themselves frequently at odds. In evoking the engagement between British power and Hellenic nationalism, a fresh perspective is given to the modernhistory of the eastern Mediterranean, and the Balkan and Near Eastern worlds to which they were intimately connected.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3467993
Author : Arnold Hauser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134637591
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced. This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.
Author : Sarah P. Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691241944
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.
Author : Arthur John Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108060974
Published in 1895, this was the first book to document and describe the newly discovered writing systems of ancient Crete.
Author : Peter Levi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857722997
"Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land." - W.H. Auden Edward Lear - beloved nonsense poet, author of such adored poems as The Owl and the Pussycat, inventor of otherworldly characters like Quangle-Wangles and of the modern limerick; lauded artist and illustrator - was a genius who defies classification. Gregarious and popular, Lear had a wide circle of friends, but was often lonely and subject to frequent bouts of depression and debilitating epilepsy, the shame of which he struggled with all his life. In this captivating biography, fellow poet Peter Levi renders descriptions of Lear's sketches and watercolours (of which he painted some 10,000 in the course of his career) and provides incisive portraits of his classic poems, such as The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussycat and The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, setting them in the wider context of traditional nursery rhymes. Lear belonged to the great tradition of adventurous British travellers, undertaking extensive journeys in Italy and Greece, in Albania, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and India and these always-eventful journeys are related here, alongside extracts and quotations from his letters and diaries. This is an essential biography for all lovers of this remarkable British literary figure and now recognised as one of the greatest 19th century landscape painters.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199802838
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2100 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135456634
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.