The British In The Mediterranean

Author : Robert Holland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846145551

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Blue-Water Empire by Robert Holland Pdf

Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger. Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile to the end of empire, as both a military and a colonising force on the islands and coastlines of the sea. Robert Holland traces the fascinating story of that presence, from its legacies in culture, language and law to the Mediterranean's own influence on Britain. Evoking the conflicts and contrasts between British and local societies caught up in dramatic events, as well as their mutual resilience under pressure, Blue Water Empire charts with vigour, flair and clarity the British experience in the Mediterranean in the age of empire. Reviews: 'An important corrective to current historical amnesia ... the definitive account of Anglo-Mediterranean history for years to come' Amanda Foreman, New Statesman 'A rich and readable account of the British in the Middle Sea ... As Holland's learned, lucid and enjoyable work makes clear, many British politicians saw the Mediterranean as the pre-eminent global strategic arena, representing the key to victory in Europe and Asia' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'This is an important subject, and it has never before been drawn together into a single coherent narrative ... Blue-Water Empire puts the land, not the sea, at the heart of the story' Literary Review 'Robert Holland's masterly history of the Mediterranean is a pleasure to read. Blue-Water Empire shows how Britain's mastery of the Middle Sea shaped the modern world, whilst reminding us how profoundly the Mediterranean has influenced the British' Simon Ball (author of The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935-1949) 'Lively and absorbing' Philip Mansel, Spectator About the author: Robert Holland is one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean and the author of Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-59, and (with Diana Markides) The British and the Hellenes: Struggles for Mastery in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1850-1960. He holds professorial positions at the Centre for Hellenic Studies in King's College London and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the same University.

Author : Peter Dietz
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034005630

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The British in the Mediterranean by Peter Dietz Pdf

A history of British occupation in the Mediterranean, its impact on British settlers and tourism. Includes a geographical description of the region and its sovereign bases.

Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783272310

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The British Navy in the Mediterranean by John D. Grainger Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean from the earliest times until the present.

Author : Robert Holland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300240870

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The Warm South by Robert Holland Pdf

An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons—including many painters and poets—who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as “Magick Land” by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation. Written by one of the world’s leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron’s poetry to Damien Hirst’s installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.

Author : Robert F. Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : British
ISBN : OCLC:1100861769

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Blue-water Empire by Robert F. Holland Pdf

Author : Alex Chase-Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485548

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The Yellow Flag by Alex Chase-Levenson Pdf

Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.

Author : Katerina Galani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004343283

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British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars by Katerina Galani Pdf

In British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars Katerina Galani offers a detailed account of Britain’s successful adaptation to economic warfare at sea during the intermittent conflicts of the late 18th century.

Author : Julian Stafford Corbett,Sir Julian Sir Julian Corbett
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602062672

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England in the Mediterranean by Julian Stafford Corbett,Sir Julian Sir Julian Corbett Pdf

In this 1917 work, the first volume of his exhaustive study of the rise of British power in the Mediterranean, Corbett focuses on British naval influence during the Stuart period. By dwelling on battles not fought as much as on those that were, he is able to show how "events which seemed but the most trifling episodes appear as links in a mighty chain." This unique take on a neglected part of English history is indispensable to anyone interested in British naval power in the years between the death of Elizabeth and the Peace of Utrecht. SIR JULIAN STAFFORD CORBETT (1854-1922) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era. He also wrote The Campaign of Trafalgar, The Seven Years War and Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, which remains a classic among students of naval warfare.

Author : Thomas W. Gallant
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268159603

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Experiencing Dominion by Thomas W. Gallant Pdf

Experiencing Dominion contributes to ongoing debates on hegemony, power, and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the imperial encounter, with topics including identity construction, the contestation over civil society, gender and the manipulation of public space, hegemony and accommodation, the role of law and of the institutions of criminal justice, and religion and imperial dominion. Thomas Gallant—widely recognized as one of the leading scholars in historical anthropology— argues that a great deal can be learned about colonialism in general through an analysis of the Ionian Islands, precisely because that colonial encounter was so atypical. For example, Gallant demonstrates that because the Ionian Greeks were racially white, Christian, and descendents of Europe’s classical forebears, the process of colonial identity formation was more ambiguous and complex than elsewhere in the Empire where physical and cultural distinctions were more obvious. Colonial officers finally decided the Ionian Greeks were “Mediterranean Irish” who should be treated like European savages. Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions between colonizers and colonized, rulers and ruled, foreigners and locals. In this important study, Gallant emphasizes contingency and historical agency, examines intentionality, and explores the processes of accommodation and, when warranted, resistance. In so doing, he reconstructs the world Britons and Greeks made together on the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century through their shared experience of dominion.

Author : Robert Montgomery Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : OXFORD:N10604514

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History of the British Possessions in the Mediterranean: Comprising Gibraltar, Malta, Gozo, and the Ionian Islands by Robert Montgomery Martin Pdf

Author : Robert Montgomery Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112106271197

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The British Colonial Library: History of the British possessions in the Mediterranean by Robert Montgomery Martin Pdf

Author : Robert Holland,Diana Markides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554681

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The British and the Hellenes by Robert Holland,Diana Markides Pdf

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 bloody process 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 Great Britain'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 Power rivalries, 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 modern history of the eastern Mediterranean, and the Balkan and Near Eastern worlds to which they were intimately connected.

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1606060570

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The Mediterranean in History by David Abulafia Pdf

What is the Mediterranean? - Physical setting - Trading empires - Sea routes - Mare Nostrum - Christian Mediterranean - Resurgent Islam - Battleground of the European powers - Globalized Mediterranean.

Author : Mr Paul Halpern
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409482802

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The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929 by Mr Paul Halpern Pdf

Post-First World War, the Mediterranean Fleet found itself in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and the Adriatic. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a vacuum of power in which different factions struggled for control. In the Black Sea this involved the Royal Navy in intervention in 1919 and 1920 on the side of Russians fighting the Bolsheviks. By 1920 the Allies were also faced with the challenge of the Turkish nationalists. As well as these events, those that comprise the final section show the Mediterranean Fleet preparing for a major war, applying the lessons of World War One and studying how to make use of new weapons, aircraft carriers and aircraft.

Author : Andrew Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107661356

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American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II by Andrew Buchanan Pdf

This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a 'peripheral' theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the 'Grand Alliance' in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.