The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718
The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718

Author: Charles Ingrao

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2011-08-12

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1612491952

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In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Pozarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Sultan, and the Republic of Venice gathered to end the conflict that had begun three and a half years earlier. The fighting had spread throughout southeastern Europe, from Hungary to the southernmost tip of the Peloponnese. The peace redrew the map of the Balkans, extending the reach of Habsburg power, all but expelling Venice from the Greek mainland, and laying the foundations for Ottoman revitalization during the Tulip period. In this volume, twenty specialists analyze the military background to and political context of the peace congress and treaty. They assess the immediate significance of the Peace of Passarowitz and its longer term influence on the society, demography, culture, and economy of central Europe.

The Churches of Eastern Christendom
The Churches of Eastern Christendom

Author: B.J. Kidd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 113621285X

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First published in 2006. Written to fill a gap in the history of the Eastern churches from A.D.461 to the present time of writing in 1927, and includes Eastern Christendom: Orthodox, Heretical and Uniate.

Great Strategic Rivalries
Great Strategic Rivalries

Author: Jim Lacey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 0190620463

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The first work covering a key element of the strategic relationship between states from ancient history to the late 20th century, Great Strategic Rivalries fills a major gap in the historiography of state relations. Each chapter provides an accessible narrative of an historically significant rivalry, comprehensively covering all aspects (political, diplomatic, economic, and military) of its history.

The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century
The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Antonella Alimento

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 3319535749

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This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development.

Tsar and Sultan
Tsar and Sultan

Author: Victor Taki

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0857728032

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Tsar and Sultan offers a unique insight into Russian Orientalism as the intellectual force behind Russian-Ottoman encounters. Through war diaries and memoirs, accounts of captivity and diplomatic correspondences, Victor Taki's analysis of military documents demonstrates a crucial aspect of Russia's discovery of the Orient based on its rivalry with the Ottoman Empire. Narratives depicting the brutal realities of Russian-Turkish military conflicts influenced the Orientalisation of the Ottoman Empire. In turn, Russian identity was built as the counter-image to the demonised Turk. This book explains the significance of Russian Orientalism on Russian identity and national policies of westernisation. Students of both European and Middle East studies will appreciate Taki's unique approach to Russian-Turkish relations and their influence on Eurasian history.