@article{1481482,
      author = {Schumacher, Leslie Rogne,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1481482},
      title = {The Eastern question in 1870s Britain : democracy and  diplomacy, Orientalism and empire /},
      abstract = {This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the  expansion of the British Empires role in the Middle East.  It investigates how British political leaders, journalists  and the general public responded to events in the Ottoman  Empire, which many, if not most, people in Britain came to  see as trudging towards inevitable chaos and destruction.  Although this Eastern Question on a post-Ottoman future was  ostensibly a matter of international politics and sometimes  conflict, this study argues that the ideas underpinning it  were conceived, shaped, and enforced according to domestic  British attitudes. In this way, this book presents the  Eastern Question as as much a British question as one  related in any way to the Ottoman Empire. Particularly in  the crucial decade of the 1870s, debates in Victorian  society on the Eastern Question served as proxies for other  pressing issues of the day, including electoral reform,  changing religious attitudes, public education, and the  costs of maintaining Britains empire. This book offers new  perspectives on the Eastern Questions relationship to these  trends in Victorian society, culture, and politics,  highlighting its significance in understanding Britains  imperial programme more widely in the second half of the  nineteenth century. Leslie Rogne Schumacher teaches  history, leadership, and intelligence studies at Wells  College in Aurora, NY, USA. He also serves in the Mario  Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell  University and as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy  Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is a  historian of Europe and the Middle East, focusing on  nationalism, imperialism, and migration in the  Mediterranean Sea and its basin from the 1700s to the  present day.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36514-0},
      recid = {1481482},
      pages = {1 online resource (274 pages) :},
}