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Excerpt from The Eastern Question: Past, Present and Future: With Map, and Official Documents In the interest of truth, and with the hope of rendering some little assistance to those who consider their country before their party, I have thought it useful to publish in chronological order the prominent facts of the drama lately enacted in Turkey; with the view also of teaching, by showing up the petty jealousies and innate selfishness at the bottom of every move made by the players at the game of the "Eastern Question," the lesson of lessons - that "honesty is the best policy," and that England never has experienced and never can expect to meet anything but humiliation from following the tortuous paths of diplomacy. If only a true history of diplomatic dealings, even in this century, could be written, what an ocean of crime, bloodshed, misery, devastation, and barbarism, would be laid bare; and yet diplomacy in every country but England is highly esteemed, and even some of our own countrymen appear disposed to condone qualities in a diplomatist, which in an ordinary man could not be excused, for example, the Times' own correspondent, telegraphing from Paris, 15 March last, 9.30 p.m. says: - "General Ignatieff has been good enough to inform me to-day that he starts to-morrow for London." He then describes General Ignatieff in the following words: - "It is necessary to have seen and heard this wonderful diplomatist to understand with what marvellous facility he dilates on the most varied themes. Let ten visitors see him, and to each of them he would describe a new policy, maintaining only some general points, which are for him like fixed flagstaff's, to which he attaches the capricious streamers of his varied narratives. Were the ten unfortunate interviewers, on leaving him, to compare notes, they would be positively amazed at this inexhaustible versatility, which intentionally obscures questions in proportion as it professes to clear them up, and, when it likes, confuses the simplest things with the air of explaining or commenting on them. All this, too, is done in the most naturally unpretentious fashion, without any apparent subtlety, the speaker looking you straight in the face, and with an animation and fluency seeming to exclude all possibility of plan." - Times, 16th March, 1877. If only one half of the above statement is true, is it not enough to make one shudder for the future? 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.
This book illuminates the Islamic World journal’s propaganda from 1893 to 1907. It highlights the journal’s utility in advancing and defending Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s policies during the turbulent time of the 1890s. The book sheds light on the political views and editorial activities of the first and last Grand Sheikh of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam. This book will interest academics, specialists and laymen whose interests relate to anti-nationalist Pan-Islamism, the Armenian massacres of 1894, Pan-Islamism, Abdul Hamid II’s policies, British-Ottoman relations, and British Islam.
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time? In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature. Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.
In 732 major articles, Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 attempts to detail every significant traveller, voyager or expedition that set out during the period. Its indexes provide the names of over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships, while the bibliographies cite more than 10,000 works of reference. Extensive biographical information is included for the travellers themselves, placing every expedition thoroughly in its historical context. The text is fully cross-referenced between articles, whilst every article is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.