Paschalis Kitromilides (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624782
- eISBN:
- 9780748671267
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624782.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910–1920 and 1928–1932, could be considered from many points of view as the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European ...
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Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910–1920 and 1928–1932, could be considered from many points of view as the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910–1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history, appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of the present book is to fill this lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. The book draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in the last quarter century, but does not confine the treatment of the subject to a purely Greek or even Balkan context. The entire project is oriented toward placing the study of Venizelos' leadership in the broad setting of twentieth-century politics and diplomacy. The complex and often dramatic trajectory of Venizelos' career from Cretan rebel to an admired European statesman is chartered out in a sequence of chapters that survey his meteoric rise and great achievements in Greek and European politics in the early decades of the twentieth century, amidst violent passions and tragic conflicts. Five further chapters appraise in depth some critical aspects of his policies, while a final chapter offers some glimpses into a great statesman's personal and intellectual world. The book offers a sense of the hopes and tragedies of Greek and European history in the age of the Great War and of the interwar crisis.Less
Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, 1910–1920 and 1928–1932, could be considered from many points of view as the creator of contemporary Greece and one of the main actors in European diplomacy in the period 1910–1935. Yet the last book-length study discussing the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history, appeared in English more than fifty years ago. The aspiration of the present book is to fill this lacuna by bringing together the concerted research effort of twelve experts on Greek history and politics. The book draws on considerable new research that has appeared in Greek in the last quarter century, but does not confine the treatment of the subject to a purely Greek or even Balkan context. The entire project is oriented toward placing the study of Venizelos' leadership in the broad setting of twentieth-century politics and diplomacy. The complex and often dramatic trajectory of Venizelos' career from Cretan rebel to an admired European statesman is chartered out in a sequence of chapters that survey his meteoric rise and great achievements in Greek and European politics in the early decades of the twentieth century, amidst violent passions and tragic conflicts. Five further chapters appraise in depth some critical aspects of his policies, while a final chapter offers some glimpses into a great statesman's personal and intellectual world. The book offers a sense of the hopes and tragedies of Greek and European history in the age of the Great War and of the interwar crisis.
Christopher Whatley
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748616855
- eISBN:
- 9780748672271
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748616855.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
The Scots and the Union explores the reasons for and the immediate consequences of the British Union of 1707 which created the United Kingdom. Research-based, critically acclaimed and the winner of ...
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The Scots and the Union explores the reasons for and the immediate consequences of the British Union of 1707 which created the United Kingdom. Research-based, critically acclaimed and the winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish History Book of the Year in 2007, The Scots and the Union challenges allegations that the Union was simply a ‘political job’, driven by self-seeking, venal Scottish politicians. Instead it argues that many of the backers of the Union in Scotland – mainly Presbyterian Whigs - were principled in their belief that the measure was necessary if the gains of the ‘Glorious’ Revolution in Scotland were to be secured from the threat facing both England and Scotland, of a return of the absolutist rule of the Stuarts and the militancy of Catholic France under Louis XIV. Other key considerations included the economic benefits to Scotland of Union.Less
The Scots and the Union explores the reasons for and the immediate consequences of the British Union of 1707 which created the United Kingdom. Research-based, critically acclaimed and the winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish History Book of the Year in 2007, The Scots and the Union challenges allegations that the Union was simply a ‘political job’, driven by self-seeking, venal Scottish politicians. Instead it argues that many of the backers of the Union in Scotland – mainly Presbyterian Whigs - were principled in their belief that the measure was necessary if the gains of the ‘Glorious’ Revolution in Scotland were to be secured from the threat facing both England and Scotland, of a return of the absolutist rule of the Stuarts and the militancy of Catholic France under Louis XIV. Other key considerations included the economic benefits to Scotland of Union.
S J Brown and Christopher Whatley (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638024
- eISBN:
- 9780748672295
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638024.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This book brings together chapters that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) conference organised to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707. One of the guiding ...
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This book brings together chapters that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) conference organised to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707. One of the guiding objectives of the RSE event was to showcase the work of younger historians, and to present new work that would provide fresh insights on this defining moment in Scotland's (and the United Kingdom's) history. The seven chapters range widely, in content and coverage, from a detailed study of how the Church of Scotland viewed the Union and how concerns about the Kirk influenced the voting behaviour in the Scottish Parliament, through to the often overlooked broader European context in which the British parliamentary union — only one form of new state formation in the early modern period — was forged. The global War of the Spanish Succession, it is argued, influenced both the timing and shape of the British union. Also examined are elite thinking and public opinion on fundamental questions such as Scottish nationhood and the place and powers of monarchs, as well as burning issues of the time such as the Company of Scotland and trade. Other topics include an investigation of the particular intellectual characteristics of the Scots, a product of the pre-Union educational system, which, it is argued, enabled professionals and entrepreneurs in Scotland to meet the challenges posed by the 1707 settlement. As one of the chapters argues, Union offered the Scots only partial openings within the empire.Less
This book brings together chapters that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) conference organised to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707. One of the guiding objectives of the RSE event was to showcase the work of younger historians, and to present new work that would provide fresh insights on this defining moment in Scotland's (and the United Kingdom's) history. The seven chapters range widely, in content and coverage, from a detailed study of how the Church of Scotland viewed the Union and how concerns about the Kirk influenced the voting behaviour in the Scottish Parliament, through to the often overlooked broader European context in which the British parliamentary union — only one form of new state formation in the early modern period — was forged. The global War of the Spanish Succession, it is argued, influenced both the timing and shape of the British union. Also examined are elite thinking and public opinion on fundamental questions such as Scottish nationhood and the place and powers of monarchs, as well as burning issues of the time such as the Company of Scotland and trade. Other topics include an investigation of the particular intellectual characteristics of the Scots, a product of the pre-Union educational system, which, it is argued, enabled professionals and entrepreneurs in Scotland to meet the challenges posed by the 1707 settlement. As one of the chapters argues, Union offered the Scots only partial openings within the empire.
