The Muslim Bonaparte
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691001944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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She invites the critical rethinking of a number of crucial notions such as hegemony, power, and history." -- Liana H. Fleming shows that the cultural representation of Ali Pasha by the West was not simply nor mainly a way of dominating him. An interesting and sound undertaking." -- Traian Stoianovich, Rutgers University. Fleming raises significant questions about the dynamic complexity of cultural representation. E. It was also a process by which Ali Pasha was able to limit that domination, and, for a time, even turn it around. Theodoratou, New York University"K. E. "K
"First-rate historiography" according to Alekos. My two brief stays in Ioannina whetted my curiosity about the almost legendary figure who governed Epirus with an iron hand in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and I figured it would be great to read all about the cruel Turkish despot who had five hundred women and fifty young boys and who personally murdered his son's mistress in the middle of the lake. But, alas, Ali was not Turkish but Albanian. He was not appointed by the Sultan but just took over the government. He clearly did not regard himself as a vassal of the Sultan but, like his Egyptia. "Where's Ali?" according to A Customer. This book is a disappointment. It is more a discourse on the cultural attitudes of western European travellers (a topic already done to death by other academics over the past twenty years) than it is an original study of Ali Pasha. It merely reformulates in academic jargon the same information on Ali that has long been available in more readable form elsewhere. No doubt this reformulation will appeal to some readers, but for many this will be a book to slog through.. A little too much hellenism Alessio Franchini The book is a good reading, however Fleming puts Ali Pasha much more in a Greek context rather than in an Albanian one. It seems that the Greek factor is overly emphasized as to attract more attention to the story of Ali Pasha. My trips in the area show that Ali Pasha is much more present among Albanians than Greeks. Yet my kudos go to the author for exploring such an intriguing figure as Ali Pasha.
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. K. 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. 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. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.. Fleming shows that the British and French diplomatic experience of Ali was at odds with the "orientalist" literatures that he inspired. These paperback editions pre