A Handbook of Travel-Talk
A Handbook of Travel-Talk

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-03-03

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 3368806882

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story
A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story

Author: Rebecca Rogers

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0804787247

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Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion of the races. To aid this fusion, she founded the first French school for Muslim girls in Algiers in 1845, which thrived until authorities cut off her funding in 1861. At this point, she switched from teaching spelling, grammar, and sewing, to embroidery—an endeavor that attracted the attention of prominent British feminists and gave her school a celebrated reputation for generations. The portrait of this remarkable woman reveals the role of women and girls in the imperial projects of the time and sheds light on why they have disappeared from the historical record since then.

The Eastern Question
The Eastern Question

Author: Stratford Canning Stratford de Redcliffe (Viscount)

Publisher:

Published: 1881

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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Stratford Canning was a British diplomat who was seen as an expert in the Ottoman Empire due to his station in Constantinople. This collection of his papers concerning Turkey is arranged chronologically from 1874 to 1880; it consists of previously unpublished memorandums, editorials to the London Times, reviews, and scholarly articles. The papers concern questions of international relations, particularly between Russia, Turkey, Greece, and England; analysis of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878); border disputes and other tensions between Greece and Turkey; discussion of the Treaty of San Stefano and the Treaty of Berlin (1878), which allowed many new Balkan states to come into existence and which unsettled the established powers of the region; an explanation of the revival of Greek independence; economic development, including concerns with Turkish currency; and a political history of Turkey with respect to the interests of Britain.