TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richmond,Steven
TI  - The voice of England in the East: Stratford Canning and diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire 
T2  - I.B. Tauris. 
SN  - 9781780761176
AV  - DA47.9.T8 R52 2014
PY  - 2014///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 
KW  - Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning,
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - 1288-1918
KW  - Historiography
N1  - "To my parents"; Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-324) and index (pages 325-339).
N2  - In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat Stratford Canning arrived in Constantinople. The cousin of George Canning, he would be Britain's representative in the power politics of the Middle East for almost two decades, and was instrumental in the events which led up to the Crimean War and the events surrounding the 'eastern question' of the nineteenth century. In "The Voice of England in the East", Steven Richmond reconstructs the diplomatic priorities of the period through the private papers and letters of a key British statesman, comparing them with Ottoman accounts written in the Sultan's court for the first time. The result is a new analytical history of the late Ottoman Empire, British diplomacy in the era of Palmerston and the reality of politics in the 'great game' of the nineteenth century.--backover.
ER  -