Against Massacre

Against Massacre
Author: Davide Rodogno
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691151334

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.

Sessional Papers

Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1890
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Sessional Index

Sessional Index
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1880
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

The Transformation of Ottoman Crete

The Transformation of Ottoman Crete
Author: Pinar Senisik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857720562

The island of Crete under Ottoman rule in the nineteenth century saw successive revolts from its majority Christian population, who were set on union with the newly-independent Greece. This book offers an original perspective on the social, political and ideological transformation of Ottoman Crete within the nationalist context of the late nineteenth century. It focuses on the Cretan revolts of 1896 and 1897, and examines the establishment of the autonomous Cretan State and the withdrawal of Ottoman troops from the island in 1898. Based on Ottoman, British and American archival sources, the author demonstrates that, contrary to the standard view that the uprisings were merely an expression of discontent at Ottoman rule, Cretan Christians in fact aimed to radically change the socio-economic and political structure of Cretan society and to actually overthrow and expel the Ottoman administration. This book provides a deeper understanding of the Cretan experience, and of the wider politics of the Eastern Mediterranean, in the late nineteenth century.

Report

Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1902
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Parliamentary Papers

Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1889
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: