The Highwaymen from the Great Sultan Road: the Fight of the Grand Vizier against the Cilicia’s Derebeys during the Campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte of 1799

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Т.Ю. Кобищанов
Keyword(s):  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
Political Management

Османское противостояние вторжению Франции в Египет и Сирию 1798–1801 гг. является одним из наименее изученных сюжетов Наполеоновских войн. Проведенные великим визирем Йусуфом Зия-пашой кампании 1799–1800 и 1801 гг. продемонстрировали как слабость османской армии, так и кризис административно-политического управления империей. Европейские, в том числе и российские наблюдатели могли воочию убедиться, как султанские войска оказались бессильны не только освободить захваченный противником Египет, но и совладать с деребеями – главарями господствовавших в Анатолии разбойничьих шаек. Представленная статья посвящена феномену появления анатолийских деребеев и драматичной борьбе с ними Йусуфа Зия-паши в 1799 г. The Ottoman resisting the invasion of France to Egypt and Syria in 1798–1801 is one of the least studied plots of the Napoleonic wars. The campaigns of 1799–1800 and 1801, conducted by the Grand Vizier Yusuf Zia-pasha demonstrated both the weakness of the Ottoman army and the crisis of administrative and political management of the Empire. European observers, including Russian ones, could convince with their own eyes how the Sultan’s troops were powerless not only to liberate Egypt captured by the enemy, but also to defeat the Derebeys, the leaders of bands of robbers that dominated in Anatolia. The presented article is devoted to the phenomenon of Anatolian Derebeys and to Yusuf Zia-pasha’s fighting against them in 1799.

Settling in Paris

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-300
Author(s):  
Stanley Finger
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
Georges Cuvier ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Gall and Spurzheim arrived in Paris during October 1807, while the Napoleonic Wars were still raging and where Napoleon Bonaparte was reshaping every aspect of society. Napoleon despised foreigners and considered Gall’s doctrine absurd. He urged Georges Cuvier, one of his appointed guardians of French science, to reject it. Nonetheless, Gall made inroads, giving public lectures and demonstrations on his organologie that were well received, while seeing patients to support himself. Encouraged by these ventures, he and Spurzheim wrote a Mémoire and submitted it to the Institut National in 1808. Cuvier, who headed the evaluating committee and was being guided by Napoleon, rejected it as unoriginal and unsuitable for the division for Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques, even though the subject matter was basic anatomy and not more controversial organologie. Gall was furious and sent letters expressing his disappointment to Cuvier, but to no avail. Consequently, he published a book covering the submission, the rejection, and his retorts. And rather than leaving France, he opted to continue his lecturing and medical practice in the city with many amenities, and he continued to work on a series of volumes he was already calling his “great work.”

scholarly journals Manifestation of 18th century literary movement through Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe: History has been rewritten

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-183
Author(s):  
Rudra Tapash
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
National Character ◽  
The Other ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
First Time ◽  
Modern Era

The nationalist feeling is agitating again today. As far as the new and ultra-developed global scenario is concerned, a huge facet of exotic invasiveness is up for grab. People of the modern era are in the thought process that their native country might be under serious threat; even though; they would remain silent until their entity rattles. The national tale before Ivanhoe reflects national character as a synecdoche of an unchanging cultural space; here patriotism is a self-evident legacy, the result of unbroken continuity and a populist community that unites aristocracy and folks. Arguably, Sir Scott for the first time, enlightens the vision of national continuity through the forcible, often violent, entry into history that does the feudal folk community become a nation. Patriotism is a positive thing for every nation and its people. It’s undoubtedly a notion of proud and passion. But here in the novel Ivanhoe, the other aspect of patriotism has been also highlighted, which has the notion of negativity and intolerance. However, we should keep in mind the time when Sir Scott was writing the novel. This was the period where just the resentment happened between France and England. In fact, the novel Ivanhoe was published (1819) just after few years of Napoleonic Wars, where eventually, England went on victorious after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo. Therefore, against this historical backdrop, the continuous struggle in Ivanhoe between domineering Normans (French) and honest Englishmen (Saxon and their allies) took on center stage to redefine the concept of patriotism.

Nepal in 1986: Problem of Political Management

Asian Survey ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Lok Raj Baral
Keyword(s):  
Political Management

After Victory

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. John Ikenberry
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Politics ◽  
World Order ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
The Cold War

The end of the Cold War was a “big bang” reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the world wars in 1919 and 1945. But what do states that win wars do with their newfound power, and how do they use it to build order? This book examines postwar settlements in modern history, arguing that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power. The book explains that only with the spread of democracy in the twentieth century and the innovative use of international institutions—both linked to the emergence of the United States as a world power—has order been created that goes beyond balance of power politics to exhibit “constitutional” characteristics. Blending comparative politics with international relations, and history with theory, the book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the organization of world order, the role of institutions in world politics, and the lessons of past postwar settlements for today.

Rebels, Believers, Survivors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Powers ◽  
First Time ◽  
Modern Myth

This book of essays covers a wide range of topics in the history of Albania and Kosovo. Many of the essays illuminate connections between the Albanian lands and external powers and interests, whether political, military, diplomatic or religious. Such topics include the Habsburg invasion of Kosovo in 1689, the manoeuvrings of Britain and France towards the Albanian lands during the Napoleonic Wars, the British interest in those lands in the late nineteenth century, and the Balkan War of 1912. On the religious side, essays examine ‘crypto-Christianity’ in Kosovo during the Ottoman period, the stories of conversion to Islam revealed by Inquisition records, the first theological treatise written in Albanian (1685), and the work of the ‘Apostolic Delegate’ who reformed the Catholic Church in early twentieth-century Albania. Some essays bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography. The longest essay, on Ali Pasha, tells for the first time the full story of the role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a contribution to Albanian and Balkan history it also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.

Germaine de Staël’s and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
New Information

This chapter describes the emergence of the terminology of improvisation in the English language. Terms relating to improvisation began to appear in the eighteenth century and came to be used frequently in the nineteenth. Germaine de Staël’s 1807 novel Corinne ou L’Italie (published in French and translated into English the same year) was an important part of this emergence of improvisation. By attending to the content and language of Corinne, including the novel’s earliest translations, the chapter argues that the novel helped create a sense of improvisation as an Italianate artistic practice with political overtones specific to the context of the Napoleonic Wars. For the Staëlian improviser, art and history alike progress not toward pre-ordained goals but by taking new information into account and improvising new ends.

scholarly journals Music and Movement in Britain, 1793–1815

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-415
Author(s):  
Mark Philp
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe frequent references to the actors and events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in the titles of the dance tunes of the period raise the question of how we should understand their significance. This article argues that the practice is one of a number of examples of music and song shaping people's lived experience and behavior in ways that were rarely fully conscious. Drawing on a range of music collections, diaries, and journals, the article argues that we need to recognize how significant aural dimensions were in shaping people's predisposition to favor the status quo in this period of heightened political controversy.

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