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214 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
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University paperbacks |
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University paperbacks.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: I. GROPING FOR A POLICY, 1875-77 3 -- Introduction-Character and Policy of the Disraeli Gov- -- ernment-British Public Opinion, 1875-International -- Situation, 1875-Purchase of the Suez Canal Shares and -- the uestion of Egypt--Repudiation of the Partition of -- TurkeyB-IrlTIMEfemorandum and Bulgarian Atrocities- -- Beaconsfield and Constantinople-Home and Salisbury at -- the Conference of Constantinople-Parition in the Air- -- Failure to Adopt a Positive Policy. -- II. CONSTRUCTING A POLICY, APRIL 1877 TO JUNE 1878 44 -- Layard at Constantinople-Character and Policy-British -- Policy and the Outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War--Bea- -- consfield and Layard Want an "Active" Policy-Crisis of -- July, r877-Search for a Coaling Station-Armenia and -- Asia Minor-Euphrates Valley Railway-Layard, Beacons- -- field, and Salisbury Discuss a Policy-Cyprus and the -- Home Memorandum-Cyprus and Railways-The Negotia- -- tion of the Cyprus Convention-Agreements with Russia -- and Austria. -- III. THE CYPRUS POLICY AND THE CONGRESS OF BER- -- "LIN 88 -- Bulgaria--Globe Revelations-Batoum and the Straits- -- 'Announcement of the Cyprus Convention-Final Negotia- -- tions regarding Batoum, the Straits and Armenia-Effect -- of the Secret Agreements on the Powers-France and -- Cyprus-Parliament and the Press on the Berlin Treaty- -- On the Cyprus Convention-Military and Naval Men on -- Cyprus-Layard's Views of the Peace Settlement-The -- Dreikaiserbund-The Task Ahead. -- IV. THE POLICY APPLIED, 1878-8o 25 -- "The Euphrates Valley Railway-Public Opinion-Andrew -- and Macneill-The Duke of Sutherland and the "Asia -- Minor and Euphrates Railway"-Negotiations with the -- British and the Turkish Governments-Failure of the -- Project-Reforms-Turkish Opinion and the Cyprus Con- -- vention-Protectorate or Persuasion--The Sultan and -- Reform-The Program and the Obstacles to Reform in -- 878--Midhat Pasha-Layard's Summary of the Year -- 1878-Military Consuls-Haireddin Pasha-The Fleet -- Threat, 1879-Summary of the Meager Results-Summary -- of Reasons for Failure-Conclusion. -- i. LETTERS OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROBERT -- HOME TO GENERAL SIR J. L. A. SIMMONS FROM -- CONSTANTINOPLE 16 -- a. December 20, 1876 -- b. January 16, 1877 -- c. February 8, 1877 -- 2. MEMORANDA CONCERNING GALLIPOLI AND THE -- DARDANELLES, 1877 76 -- a Home on a British Occupation of Gallipoli and the -- Dardanelles, submitted to Lord Salisbury and for- -- warded to Simmons on January 12, 1877. -- b. Simmons on the above, February 2, 177 (Extract) -- c. Home on the Dardanelles, February 3, 1877 (Extract) -- 3, LETTERS OF A. H. LAYARD TO THE EARL OF -- BEACONSFIELD 18 -- a. June 20, I877 -- b. December 12, 1877 -- 4. CORRESPONDENCE OF A. H LAYARD AND LORD -- SALISBURY 1 -- a. Confidential Despatc No. 525, Constantinople, April -- 24, 1878 (Extract) -- b. Private Letter, Therapia, May E5, 1878 (Extract) -- 5.EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORANDA SIGNED BY -- LORD SALISBURY AND COUNT SHUVALOV ON MAY -- 3o AND 31, 1878 AND CORRESPONDENCE RESPECT- -- ING THEM 94 -- 6. DECLARATION REGARDING BATOUM AND THE -- STRAITS, JULY 1878 96 -- 7.MEMORANDUM OF THE PROPOSED ASIA M-INOR -- AND EUPRATES RAILWAY AND LIST OF MEM- -- BERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, COMMUNICATED TO -- THE FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 17, 1878 197 -- 8 MEMRANDUM BY GENERAL SIR J. L. A. SIM- -- MONS CONCERNING MEASURES TO BE TAKEN -- IN RESISTING A RUSSIAN ADVANCE SOUTHWARD -- INTO ASIA MINOR, JULY 26, 1878 199 -- 9 SIR A. H. LAYARD TO HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL -- SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, -- SECRET DESPATCH NO. 461, CONSTANTINOPLE, -- APRIL 27, i88o (Extract) o |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [186]-197 |
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Eastern question.
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115246
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100263
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Russia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116768
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USSR -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117087
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| LC no. |
77368129 |
| ISBN |
0416132502 |
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