The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom - (Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000) by Jack Fairey (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"During the mid-19th century, the Orthodox Christians of the Middle East found themselves at the centre of a bitter struggle for control between five empires - Russia, Britain, France, Austria, and the Ottoman government itself. This book traces the history of the international crisis over Orthodox Christendom from its origins in the 1820s-1830s to its partial resolution in the 1860s. It explains how and why the temporal powers exercised by the Orthodox Church led to an escalating series of diplomatic confrontations that reached their acme in the 1850s with the outbreak of the Crimean War and a concerted campaign by the Great Powers to secularize and laicize the non-Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In the mid-19th century, the Orthodox Christians of the Balkans and the Middle East found themselves at the centre of a heated struggle for ascendency over the region between five empires - Russia, Britain, France, Austria, and Ottoman Turkey. This book traces the history of the international crisis over Orthodox Christendom from its origins in the 1820s-1830s to its partial resolution in the 1860s. It explains how and why the temporal powers exercised by the Orthodox clergy in the East became the focus of an escalating series of diplomatic confrontations that reached their boiling point in the 1850s with the outbreak of the Crimean War. It also shows how the resulting conflict, Europe's last great religious war, paved the way for the promulgation of reforms that British, French, and Austrian statesmen hoped would promote divisions within Orthodox Christendom and bring about the secularization of the non-Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire. <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jack Fairey has taught European, Ottoman, Greek, and Mediterranean history at the National University of Singapore and at Queens University and York University in Canada. His research work deals primarily with Orthodox Christendom and the early modern empires of the eastern Mediterranean.
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