Fleming The Muslim Bonaparte

Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6497-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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 from the Ottoman state, he cleverly took advantage of the diplomatic relations of Britain, Russia, France, and Venice. As he reached the peak of his powers, however, European accounts of him portrayed him in ever more "orientalist" terms--as irrational, despotic, cruel, and undependable.

Fleming focuses on the tension between these two experiences of Ali--the diplomatic and the cultural. She also places the history of modern Greece in the context of European history, as well as that of Ottoman decline, and demonstrates the ways in which contemporary European visions of Greece, particularly those generated by Romanticist philhellenism, contributed to a unique form of "orientalism" in the south Balkans. Greece, a territory never formally colonized by Western Europe, was subject instead to a surrogate form of colonial control--one in which the country's history and culture, rather than its actual land, was annexed, invaded, and colonized.

Originally published in 1999.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleming, K. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction 3

2 Historiography, Historical Context, Sources, and a Brief Biography 18

3 Ali and the Economy of Ioannina 36

4 Ethnicity, Language, and Religion: The Bases for Nationalism within Ali's Borders 57

5 The European Context: An Overview 70

6 Initial Contact with the French 78

7 The Russo-Turkish Alliance, the Septinsular Republic, and the British 95

8 Orientalist Strategies 118

9 Orientalist Themes 135

10 Ali's Manipulation of the Orientalist Image 156

11 Conclusion 181

Bibliography 187

Index 201