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From the late eighteenth century until the 1920s, one of the preeminent international issues in Europe was the so-called "Eastern Question," a term that refers to the events and dynamics related to the decline of the Ottoman Empire's political and economic power. European states…

Beyond being an international question of the status of the Ottoman Empire, it was The Eastern Question that determined the course of diplomacy towards the Ottoman Empire throughout the nineteenth century. Lord Palmerston’s policy of preserving Ottoman territorial integrity (wit…

Intimate Antagonists: British Images of the Balkans, 1853-1914, explores the impact of the Eastern Question on the formation of British stereotypes about the Balkans, seeking to explain how the Balkans came to be seen as a disgrace to Europe. It advances the previous studies on …

Traditionally, the British Empire is studied through the lens of British imperial rule in Asia, Africa, or the Americas, while scholars brush aside what was the vortex of British foreign policy in the second half of the nineteenth century--the Eastern Question, or the question o…