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The Muslim Bonaparte : Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece.
Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in re...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Princeton modern Greek studies.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in recent decades. K.E. Fleming shows that the British and French diplomatic experience of Ali was at odds with the ""orientalist"" literatures that he inspired. Dubbed by Byron the ""Muslim Bonaparte, "" Ali enjoyed a position of diplomatic strength in the eastern Adriatic; in his attempt to secede f |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (219 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400864973 1400864976 |